Penelope Richardson’s site-specific installation Confess at Counihan Gallery Melbourne, uses a globalised aesethetic of decay to heighten our awareness of a vernacular associated with displacement. The people and dwellings Confess is comprised of, represent everything from demolished buildings and displaced peoples to feral subcultures.
This new body of work combines Richardson’s investigation and experience of street culture; a portraiture styled methodology towards her subjects and an idiosyncratic use of collage techniques to pictorially represent the experience of alternative living conditions.
Importantly for Richardson it is an aesthetic that combines her personalised response with stylistic conventions that render a peculiar authenticity of her own experience of the intensity of urban living in various locations around the world.
Lisa Byrne
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