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@xxxxxxxxxxx 

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