Encountering This: Orange Peel and Onion Skin

Attention with care given to the other is at the core of my practice. Encountering This; Orange Peel and Onion Skin contains accounts of encounters with this and considers my relationship and understanding of this. This paper is not concerned with placing myself nor my work in the context of contemporary art rather the priority of the paper is on attention and a way of being, in relation to things. I place my work in relation to Jan Zwicky, Elaine Scarry, and Tim Lilburn. These writers and thinkers are engaging with a conversation about ones’ relation to the other. In the paired exhibition Orange Peel and Onion Skin, ‘this’ is navel orange peel and red onion skin. The work is a parallel investigation of two particular, related things foregrounding their thisness. The work will be exhibited in Gales Gallery, an off-site location, and a kitchen studio space.