Bridge

Duxbury was one of ten artists invited to participate in this curated group exhibition which considered the artist as traveller, both as an external reality and as an internal process. 'The work showcases the vibrancy of contemporary art in Australia and Austria and confirms the close artistic connections between the two countries.' (Deborah Stokes, Ambassador, Australian Embassy, Austria: Catalogue Introduction) 'Bridge,' a diptych of large-format, black and white inkjet prints with two images separated by a strip of text in English and German, builds on previous representations of rainbows by Duxbury and relates to both Goethe's and Newton's theories of colour, the splitting of the prism into seven colours. In this work the splitting of the two images by the text refers to the double rainbow in the manner of artist Hamish Fulton. Fulton used the words for the rainbow's colours to represent the rainbow itself. In 'Bridge' the doubling of text in two languages builds on this idea, representing both a link between two countries and two cultures. The photographic representation of a rainbow, separated into two parts, alludes to the elusive ends of the rainbow that can never be reached and exist only in the mind of the observer - the ends of the rainbow come together in the imagination. In this work Duxbury extends her research into the phenomena of the sky and its atmosphere as both internal and external forces. Other artists in the exhibition included: Tony Scott, Maggie McCormick, Elisabeth Weissensteiner and Claudia-Maria Luenig.