Diagram for a posey

Research Background This exhibition focuses upon artists' ongoing experiments in medium and meaning. Selected works reflect historical and contemporary shifts towards the unmonumental in sculpture. This continues a significant area of research in contemporary art globally as evident in the major exhibition at the New Museum,New York, USA Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. Research Significance Incorporating elements of decoration and design, and dynamics of scale, the exhibition?also displays an interest in a domestication of modernism. Black elastic, two umbrellas, a mint leaf and wheels encourages conversations regarding form and mode between and across media. The work 'Diagram for a Posey' 1994, has not been exhibited before, and in the context of this exhibition highlights it as a significant work from the Monash University Museum of Art. In that it engages with abstraction, concepts of simulacra, natural and artificial representations of nature and space. A PDF catalogue accompanies the exhibition. Research Contribution It is innovative as the exploration of the colour laser photocopier in the early 1990's was a new technology. Weaver contributed to the research in this medium as a printmaking strategy that combined established and new technologies. Weaver's research contributed to the CLC as an excepted and bona fide print medium in Australia. This work printed on Japanese paper from an original photograph, combined with supplementary layer of embroidered thread further extends the concepts of collage and assemblage. In particular the process of embroidering through the surface of the image contributed to new technological and conceptual knowledge in this field and has been highly influential.