The Share House Project is a collaboration between writer Janine Mikosza and visual artist Stephanie Jones. We are exploring speculative architecture built on the foundations of memory, and are asking members of the public to contribute by drawing the floor plans of their childhood homes from memory. Click here for more details.
Sugar town (everything and nothing stays the same), 2017, colour pencil on paper, 26 x 41 cm
Exhibition view, On the streets where you live, 2017, Canberra Contemporary Art Space City (CCAS City)
Exhibition view, On the streets where you live, 2017, Canberra Contemporary Art Space City (CCAS City)
1km from home (starting over – big), 2017, inkjet print on archival rag, 112 x 80.5 cm
1km from home (around the block), 2017, edition of 10, inkjet print on archival rag, 41 x 29 cm
1km from home (up and down), 2017, edition of 10, inkjet print on archival rag, 41 x 29 cm
1km from home (round and round), 2017, edition of 10, inkjet print on archival rag, 40.5 x 28.5 cm
One line (pink), 2017, colour pencil on paper, 26 x 93 cm
One line (blue), 2017, colour pencil on paper, 26 x 93 cm
Something in the air, 2017, colour pencil on paper, 26 x 93 cm
On the streets where you live, 2017, colour pencil on paper, 26 x 93 cm
Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS City), 1 June – 1 July, 2017
On the Streets Where You Live charts the themes of place, memory and belonging. It’s an exhibition that celebrates the neighbourhood in which I’ve lived for over twenty years, drawing on a number of suburban references, from the ornamental ironwork of fences, gates and verandah railings, to local street nomenclature and road maps.
The works are a form of autotopography, which refers to the spatial, local and situational ‘writing’ of the self, distinct from autobiography or memoir because it is not a narrative as such, but rather an interweaving of the self with place, surface and object.