Judy Darragh's curiousity about everyday and discarded things is to the fore once more in her installation Chorus. The mix of utilitarian and decorative objects from households, opportunity shops and $2 stores display their cultural, historical, ecological and socio-political baggage. Such found objects are re-mixed and reconsidered through the processes of Darragh's critical and inquisitive hand crafting. The work is wilfully low tech, with machine made objects that are upended, stuffed, skewered and twisted, hanging and propped against walls.
Chorus celebrates and explores hand making with artificially produced materials, an oxymoron of sorts. The artist's skills are evident but there are also aspects of improvisational construction. Aesthetic refinement is deeply present in the work yet the gaudy and unsophisticated are welcomed in ways that are remarkably polished. Darragh's processes of assemblage take the source material, mainly plastic, far from its original simple function, to an elaborate installation with potent affect.
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