Penny Coss, Twist of The Sea

Perth Centre for Photography is pleased to announce our first programmed Nightwork by Penny Coss. Twist of the Sea 2019, is a large scale immersive single-channel video. It describes the circular wind and water currents that take as its subject, the surety of tidal pattern with that of vulnerability, drifting in a maelstrom of doubt.

From the discipline of painting, Penny Coss’ recent work has engaged with three-dimensional architectural space through other disciplines including ephemeral performance, (Pendulum Acts 2020), large scale site-specific installations (Anxious Spaces 2020, WaterLine 2019), single and multi-channel video installations, (Twist of the Sea and Doldrums 2019 ) and outdoor interventions (Waterline 2017).

She references geology, biology and the gravitational forces of water. Dialectical oppositions dominate Penny Coss’ artistic practise: an interest in the impermanence of art as object, where changing colour in nature is stained onto her canvas works and with their traces of seepage and flow triggers the unreliability of objects and phenomena that prompt memory. Other themes include time and space, nature and culture; that all dynamically interact with each other. Coss was born in Sydney, graduated from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and undertook further studies at St. Martins School of Art, London, before moving to Perth in 1994. Coss is represented in multiple public and corporate collections.

Twist of the Sea on Nightworks runs Wednesday to Friday evenings, from the 14 August, 2020.


NIGHTWORKS

An open call for non-narrative videos, photographic slideshows, and stories to be presented on the NIGHTWORKS screen.

This is an opportunity for artists to share their work with a new after-hours audience within the Perth CBD.

There will be is no cost for PCP Members to exhibit, and all artists will be supported with promotion and an opening event.

To be eligible for the selection, you must be a PCP member. Not a member? Become one now! 

All works will be screened Wednesday to Friday evenings for a six-week period.


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