Boxing Day
An exhibition of paintings by artist and tsunami survivor Fleur Childs
Boxing Day is an exhibition of large-scale canvases by emerging Australian artist Fleur Childs. It is the result of an investigation into her relationship with water - a relationship that became profoundly complicated on Boxing Day, 2004.
Childs was staying at Arugam Bay, a remote beach community on the east coast of Sri Lanka, when the Indian Ocean tsunami struck. She and her husband were fortunate to survive the wave and the ordeal that followed. With the works that make up Boxing Day, Childs attempts to reinterpret and reshape the traumatic experience. In her self-portraits, the event is both depicted and re-imagined.
The works are a generous act of sharing and the end result of an obviously cathartic art- making process. Boxing Day communicates a personal experience of riding the wave that killed over 200,000 people.
(All paintings are untitled, oil on canvas, copyright Fleur Childs 2006)
Venue: blank_space gallery
Address: 374 Crown St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
Date: 26 October- 1 November 2006
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