5 September - 13 December 2009

REGIONAL ART SPACE

SINGING: PENNY VOLKOFSKY

Dubbo-based artist Penny Volkofsky, has created an installation of printed dressed created using tissue paper and various relief printing techniques.

"I remember when as a child I first found a cicada shell clinging to the bark of a tree. It looked like a living creature basking in the sun. To find that it was just an empty shell was such a shock. How did the insect get out of there and leave its shell so intact?

Our bodies are like cicada shells that will one day be left behind; like clothes we take off at the end of the day; like crumpled wrapping paper for a precious gift. One day I’ll be unwrapped and the paper will be discarded; I’ll be stripped and re-clothed. One day someone will find my empty shell and know that I am out there singing." Penny Volkofsky