ray harris

30.09.2011 – 29.10.2011

ray harris
Hold me Close and Let me Go


Artist’s Statement

Hold me Close and Let me Go explores the psychological space of unsatisfied symbiosis, the need for oneness lingering in hearts and psyches unremittingly. Like the small scratch on a saplings bark that grows to a big cut, these are the narcissistic wounds and scars, the yearnings and fantasies, the denials and re-creations and the inextricable knots that keep us tied to the ones we never had.

 

floor sheet catalogue essay


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bio: ray harris

Ray Harris is a Masters (Research) candidate at the University of South Australia and recipient of the MF & MH Joyner Scholarship. She was awarded the Constance Gordon-Johnson Sculpture and Installation Prize 2010 (UniSA). Ray has exhibited locally at SASA Gallery; Format; Art Space Festival Center; the Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition; at and co-curated odradekaeaf; and had a solo show Come sail with me down Denial at Project Space, CACSA. She also exhibited at InFlight (Hobart, 2011) Next Wave Festival (Melbourne, 2010) and in 'Fantastic Borders' at Gil and Moti Homegallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2009. Ray has been a co-director of FELTspace since 2010.