ON EXHIBITION @ The Centre Beaudesert

IMAGINED WORLDS: inside out
by Janine Healy

Explores an internal and external landscape based on self-portraits using actual x-rays
 

20 AUG - 15 OCT 2022

Featured in ENDURING Exhibition

WHERE

The Centre Beaudesert, 82 Brisbane Street, Beaudesert  ALL WELCOME

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Sat 20 August 2022 10.30am for 11am start 
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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

In this exhibition, Scenic Rim artist Janine Healy explores an internal and external landscape based on self-portraits using actual x-rays and light boxes. These light boxes create a magical space where the viewer can investigate the subject, in this case, inside the artist. These images are not graphic in nature or offensive. The x-rays are somewhat concealed and overlaid with images and paintings of landscapes and botanicals etc.

Over the years I have had many medical procedures, including a two-level spinal fusion. I was fascinated by the mechanics of this structure of pedicle screws, wire cages and bone grafts and how quickly my body assimilated into making these foreign objects become one with my body, my “frame”.

In addition to the combination of art and science and how nature adapts and takes over,  it reminded me of seeing trees engulf fence posts and barbed wire and how saplings often swallow up the supports that assisted their growth.

Nature verses Nurture.

It made me explore the idea of the Bionic Woman/Man and how much science has affected and enabled the ability to move, and change, adapt and grow.

It invites conversation and discussion.

The Science of Biomechanics
The Science of Orthopaedics
The Science of Chemistry (and how different matter reacts with each other)
Art vs Science

This series of works explore these realms.

Today, X rays are no longer printed on acetate films and are on digital format only. I wanted to honour the mountain of imaging I had collected over the past 30 years and turn science into an art form.

Using the films as a collage on artwork, in light boxes and lamps, the beauty of the monochromatic tones and the similarities and disparity between what can be seen and what lies hidden internally, moving through and past the layers.

It’s also a metaphor for what lies beneath, what makes someone tick, seeing beyond the external and being able to view a world that few ever see, if at all.

The works are not obvious.

I have always been fascinated by x-rays and how light and imaging can penetrate and diffuse through our outer layer to show what’s inside our very core.This series of portraits tastefully explore the artist from the inside out. It’s a story of survivalof partnering with science for a positive outcome. Some parts are dark and moody, there’s a hidden beauty to be discovered in this deeply personal metaphor.

The collection will be a series of light boxes using led strips to illuminate the pieces, large plywood panelled portraits, prints, freestanding sculptures, and installations.

Also featured in the Enduring exhibition is Nature of Change by Bonny Shore