Colour Swatch

This exhibition was held in association with the Drawing Out conference, 7-9 April, a creative collaboration between RMIT University and the University of the Arts London and explored drawing across various disciplines. It was curated by Assoc. Prof. Peter Ellis and Stephen Gallagher. The RMIT University, School of Art is one of six international Art schools to be invited to participate in an exhibition hosted by Seoul National University, South Korea in November 2009. RMIT is the only Australian art school to be invited into this prestigious event. Other International schools invited by Seoul National are, Berlin University of the Arts, Burg Giebichenstein Hochschule fur Kunst und Design Halle, National Taiwan University of the Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, University of the Arts London. 'Colour Swatch' forms part of an ongoing enquiry from my PhD studies. The title for my PhD is 'Shimmering Spaces: Installation practices informed by an Anglo Indian experience. The research draws on both Edward Said and Homi Bhabbha's theories which see colonialized spaces as not locked in the past but rather influencing, determining and intruding on the present and thus shaping dialogues relating to cross cultural and transnational discourses. The work examines issues relating to perceived demarcated spaces, in this drawing it is designed around the form of conventional colours swatches using colours from Indian saris, which bleed and run, misbehaving and not quite conforming to the rigid and hierarchical structures determined by Western notions of Modernism.