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BRONWYN PLATTEN
LOVE MAPS AND SHADOW PLAY

EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION
6-8pm Thursday 11 September-11 October 2003 TUES-FRI 11-5, SAT 2-5
Gallery Talk 6pm Tuesday 16 September

Throughout the last decade and a half, Bronwyn Platten has exhibited 
prolifically and received numerous awards including Australia Council 
grants for a residency at Greene Street Studio, New York, and a 
professional development grant to research international collections 
of erotica and representations of desire. LOVE MAPS AND SHADOW PLAY 
represents the second in a series of exhibitions responding to that 
research.

The exhibition delves below the surface to explore the underlying 
motivations and social values that shape experiences of desire. The 
psychiatrist, Dr. John Money, coined the term 'love map' to describe 
the mental template that defines an individual's unique picture of an 
idealised lover and an idealised romantic and erotic love 
relationship. LOVE MAPS AND SHADOW PLAY seeks to expand upon 
perceived limitations of Money's theories in order to draw out the 
unspeakable and intractable qualities that shape both relationships 
to and experiences of love and desire.

Works will traverse imagined landscapes of emotion and patterns of 
longing, interweaving autobiographical accounts alongside 
'remappings' of historical, psychoanalytical and mythological texts. 
A diverse range of materials and methods will be employed and the 
exhibition will incorporate concrete poems as well as film and video. 
A film work, 'Isabel' to be included in LOVE MAPS AND SHADOW PLAY 
will take as its starting point a characterisation loosely based on 
Platten's paternal grandmother of Orcadian heritage. Less of a 
portrait than a poem, 'Isabel' will trace subtle biological and 
emotional links between landscape and identity; embodied desires; 
loss and reparation.

A graduate of the South Australian School of Art in 1984 and 
undertaking further studies in Psychology, Women's Studies and 
Anthropology at Flinders University, Bronwyn is currently based in 
Scotland where she has been living and working since 2001. The EAF in 
association with the South Australian School of Art, has initiated a 
residency during Bronwyn's time here, where she will continue work on 
her exhibition and undertake workshops and lectures with students 
over one month.

Bronwyn's exhibition at the EAF is assisted by the South Australian 
Government through Arts SA, SA School of Art at the University of SA, 
and is sponsored by Nepenthe Wines.

A 20 page catalogue with images of new and previous work together 
with essays by Iain Biggs, Reader in Visual Art Practice, University 
of the West of England, Bristol, and Sarah Minney, Adelaide artist 
and writer, accompanies this exhibition.

Some articles on the work of Bronwyn Platten are available at the 
following website:
http://www.cacsa.org.au/publish/broadsheet/BS_v30no3/bs_05.pdf
http://www.cacsa.org.au/publish/broadsheet/BS_v31no1/bs_13.pdf

If you would like more information please contact Julie Lawton 8211 
7505 or email admin at eaf.asn.au.

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Board of the Australia Council and the South Australian Government 
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