inside another land #14
(2017)
Medium
synthetic polymer paint on inkjet print
Measurements
(83.0 × 59.0 cm) (image) (94.1 × 67.8 cm) (sheet) 98.0 × 71.7 cm (framed)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2018
© Del Kathryn Barton
Gallery location
Gallery 9
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
Early twentieth-century artists engaged in the art movement Dadaism used collage to access the Freudian domain of the unconscious mind. The Dada artist Hannah Höch was a key proponent of photomontage, which she used to explore the role of women in a changing world. Similarly, Del Kathryn Barton’s use of collage critiques the illusion of an orderly world, in favour of absurdity. The visual delirium induces a kind of hallucinatory experience in which new creatures seem possible. Barton incorporates imagery of the flower, a widely understood symbol of female sexuality: its physical resemblance to women’s genitalia is coupled with the symbolic reference to blooming, invoking the creation of new life.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Sydney, New South Wales
Edition
artist’s proof ed. 2/2
Inscription
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen l.l.: 2/2 ap
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen l.c.l.: – inside another land # 14 –
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen l.c.r.: del kathryn barton
Accession Number
2018.494
Department
Contemporary Art