Melbourne-based artist Zoë Croggon works with sculpture, video, drawing and primarily, collage. Her work brings different worlds and moments into collision, suggesting unexpected affinities of energy and form. Croggon’s collages are composed of images gleaned from sources such as sports encyclopaedias, photography manuals, film stills and dance catalogues. By exploring texture, light, and form through visual comparison and by making fluid or discordant juxtapositions and connections, she rouses the possibilities of metamorphosis and abstraction.
Read MoreIn the practice of collage, the identity of an object is suspended between its original context and the new conceptual whole in which it is set. An object in a collage surrenders its identity and function and undergoes an aesthetic transformation. Croggon is particularly interested in exploring the possibilities of subconscious perception and the power of suggestion over actual resemblance.
Zoë Croggon has a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts with First Class Honours, where she received the ACACIA Art Award and was short-listed for the Wallara Travelling Scholarship. Croggon is currently a finalist in the Basil Sellers Art Prize and is working towards a major new work for exhibition at the Ian Potter Museum of Art in 2014. Recent exhibitions include Liquid Archive at Monash University Museum of Art, Exploration 12 at Flinders Lane Gallery and Future Now at The Substation. She has also exhibited in group exhibitions at NGV Studio, Blindside, Platform, Seventh, TCB, Tinning Street, blackartprojects and the VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery. In 2013 she has solo exhibitions at Daine Singer and at West Space and is included in Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria.
