HELEN S. TIERNAN | MEMORY SPACE

HELEN S. TIERNAN MEMORY SPACE

COOEE ART REDFERN | 17 APRIL - 8 MAY 2021 1

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HELEN S. TIERNAN | MEMORY SPACE | 17 APRIL - 8 MAY 2021

Published on Apr 10, 2021

Helen S. Tiernan uses her art like an archaeological tool, to interrogate, challenge and explore the many layers and contradictions that lie below the surface of contact history. From her earliest years at Canberra School of art, Helen’s interest lay in narrative, historical, satirical, and romantic art. She began by using the embossed and relief patterning found in decorative interiors, employing wallpaper as a metaphor in validating and acknowledging the historical female domestic experience, including the claustrophobia and repressive control that creative women experienced within the confines of their homes and family and extrapolated this to Aboriginal women in servitude.

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HELEN S. TIERNAN | MEMORY SPACE | 17 APRIL - 8 MAY 2021 by Art Leven [formerly Cooee Art] - Issuu