Edwards + Johann - 'A Splinter in the Eye is the Best Looking Glass'
North Gallery, 8th–25th April 2009
Edwards + Johann: have work together in interdisciplinary practice since 2007, exploring play and process. Highlights of their practices, individual and collective, include Victoria’s doctoral work in 2006 NightWatch...moving image sequences in installation 2005-2006, and Ina’s award winning work Stuttering Structures #2 in the 2006 CoCA/Anthony Harper Contemporary Art Award.
Ina Johann, internationally renowned German-born artist work involves collaboration with artists, writers/poets and musicians, exploring a form of navigation and mapping in the terrain of survey, observation, and fragmentation and reflects upon memory loss, coding and de-coding.
Dr. Victoria Edwards, New Zealand-born artist exhibited nationally and internationally since the 1970s. Edwards was awarded her Doctorate in 2006. She works primarily in new media, including drawing and photography. Her work explores role play and social conventions in relation to individual and collective identity.