Genevieve Memory
Artist. Composer. Writer
Works - Visual Art
2021
Road to Ballandean (Kambuwal country) - oil and oil stick on linen
un-titled - found doll's clothing, canvas, thread, white gesso, clear acrylic medium, artist's oil paint, graphite, pastel pencil, oil pastel (8 canvases), installed as three vignettes with found children's toys and cutlery
Abstract Painting (2017/2021) - wool fibre on silk chiffon on linen
Object memory poem (2021) - vintage glass jars, haberdashery, doll's shoes, glitter, tictacs, vintage tobacco tin, conte crayons, school port, table
Dear Feminism - acrylic artist's paint, oil stick, graphite, fabrics (gifted, vintage, found and new), women's clothing, heading tape, thread (4 banners)
From your lips - vintage exercise book c.1970s, gasenshi paper, rice glue, watercolour pencil, biro, correction fluid, artist book, from the series Good advice not to be taken
Like poison in my veins - vintage glass poison bottles, vintage timber table, from the series Good advice not to be taken
Don't get your dress dirty - acrylic artist's paint on altered found cocktail dresses, vintage timber hangers (6 dresses)
2020
Object memory poem (2020) - acrylic house paint and acrylic artist's paint on found carpet rug, found fabric lamp shade and jar lids, glass jars, household objects, ephemera, vintage timber plinths
Hope is a form of planning and a survival tactic - found denim jeans and skirt, thread, polyester wadding, canvas, timber (6 panels)
No judging (me and my curlew gang) - oil on linen
Monument - acrylic gesso and artist's oil paint on found women's tops and canvas
Mother and daughter (diptych) - acrylic house paint, acrylic artist's paint, found dresses, hangers
Paperskin series - oil and oil stick on cradled panel (6 panels) (2 panels reworked 2021)
Dress Shop Window Wonderland - acrylic artist's paint and acrylic house paint on found evening dresses, fabric, string lights, armature wire, nylon and polyester thread
2019
Portrait of Elizabeth Kingston (four-way portrait) - oil on Belgian linen
My shiny new egalitarianism - acrylic and enamel house paint and acrylic artist's paint on found dresses and bedsheet
Strapless purple satin dress (make a statement) - acrylic artist's paint on found evening dress
Two journal entries (I felt) - acrylic artist's paint and oil stick on silk dress fabric
Sapphire blue formal dress (slashes) - acrylic house paint and acrylic artist's paint on found formal dress
Navy blue formal dress (shibori) - acrylic artist's paint on found homemade formal dress
Untitled (sisters) - inkjet print on archival matte paper
Untitled (silver shift dress) - acrylic artist's paint on found dress
International Women's Day - intervention in the Griffith QCA concourse void consisting of found and donated dresses affixed to rope
egalitarian (talking about women in a non-gender-specific post-feminist landscape) - acrylic house paint, acrylic artist's paint and oil stick on found dresses
Shopping for a dress - found dresses, labels, hangers, portable clothes rack, full-length mirror, chair, table, journal, pen
Proposition - acrylic house paint, acrylic artist's paint and graphite on silk dress fabric
Vintage black and white evening dress (Elizabeth meets Jackson) - acrylic house paint on found evening dress
Undefined - shop-bought grey top
2018
Centenary - self-published book of interviews to accompany the portrait series of the same name
Ruby red satin dress (217 years) - acrylic house paint on found satin and chiffon evening dress
Margi as Sonja, from the Centenary series - oil on Belgian linen (reworked 2019)
Ingrid as Mada, from the Centenary series - oil on Belgian linen
Genevieve as Helene, from the Centenary series - oil on Belgian linen
Bronwyn as Emilie, from the Centenary series - oil on Belgian linen
The Three Graces - acrylic gesso and oil paint on found dresses and linen
I am the dress - acrylic house paint, acrylic artist's paint, silk wedding dress, sound file
Dignity lost - acrylic, oil, oil stick and silk on bonded linen-cotton
Pictures of you series - oil on linen (Jenna, Sean, Nat, Catherine, Savannah, Perrin, Eliza, Maggie, Kirk, Luba, Ruby, Robbie, Genevieve), 18 portraits in total
Green satin dress - oil on loomstate linen
2017
Linen dress - acrylic on linen
Abstract painting - wool fibre on silk chiffon installation
Purple velvet dress - oil on linen
Pink party dress - oil on linen
I'm the oldest series - oil on panel
Miranda - oil on canvas
Pictures of you series - oil on linen (Frank, Rose, Ingrid, Chris, Sharna)
Substance (this is not a wardrobe) - installation in collaboration with Perrin Millard and Chris Underwood
Envelope poems series - oil and oil stick on board
We named him George - oil on canvas
Wedding day - digital print from vintage photograph and etching overlay
You and me (selfie) - oil on canvas
Self-portrait (woman as art object) - oil on canvas
Bridal bouquet - oil on canvas
Night road (Otago Peninsula) - oil on canvas
Shinkansen I, Shinkansen II - oil on canvas
Intricacies series - copper plate hard and soft ground etchings
Japanese maple, Gumnut in bud and Yellow gazania - digital photographs
2016
Truth is Stranger series - acrylic on canvas
Untitled (diaphanous) - acrylic on canvas
Thanks, J.P. I, Thanks, J.P. II - acrylic on kraft paper
Modern day saint - linocut
Cracking - copper plate hard ground etching with rosin aquatint
Dresses series - multi-plate aluminium etchings and collagraphs
Diaphanous series - monoprints
Threading - drypoint
Dresses series - graphite drawings
Memory of place I - pencil drawing
The ties that bind (Strangler fig) - graphite drawing
An awareness of things - jewellery collection
Adaptation: Night curlew room - paper ceiling installation with sound file
Modular series - paper sculptures
Alexandra and Moke Lake - digital photographs
2015
Cylinder - copper plate soft ground etching
Stradbroke - drypoint
Jacarandas in bud - drypoints
Pandanus palms - photographic transfer
Wave diptych - photographic transfer
View from Sandy Bay - photographic transfer
The Establishment series - drawing and layered photography
Self-portrait - charcoal drawing
Miranda - pencil drawing
Adolescence - mixed media
Poppies - digital photograph
Untitled - layered digital photograph