This exhibition by Janet Laurence is the first in an ongoing series of sitespecific installations and reflects the gallery's policy of showing the kind of work that might not otherwise be seen by students of art and the broader community. In a time of increased insistence in the market place on the discreteobject, on art ascommodi ty and capital investment, it is critical that installations of this nature reach the widest possible audience. Janet Laurence places the viewer at the centre of the work, without a fixed viewpoint. She has not reconstructed the given physical space, yet the gallery remains no mere container. An outer ring or outer limit surrounds an inner sanctuary within which spatial and other relationships arc remade.
Artist
Janet Laurence
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Curated by Maggie Gilchrist
Images: Installation view, 'Janet Laurence: Blindspot', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 1989.