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Body of Work, showing at Artereal in Rozelle from 8 March - 5 April

March is Archibald month in Sydney with focus fully on the face.

Body of Work, showing at Artereal in Rozelle from 8 March - 5 April, is approaching the perception of the body from the divergent views of eight national and international artists working in sculpture, print media and photography.

These artists explore themes of absence, reminiscence, loss of identity, dream and death through techniques such as cyanotypes (sun prints), resin, digitised skin, etchings and collagraphs.

In this exhibition, the body is the expressive vehicle for ideas of ageing, self image, innocence lost and issues of perception within a society engulfed in digital images and fabricated realities.

Collaborative photographers AZIZ+CUCHER overlay living human skin onto architecture, while REBECCA BEARDMORE engages her viewer with the haunting subtlety of her print media works.

Female loss of identity, from both a self-image and societal point of view, underlies Muse by photographer SHANE FITZGERALD.

In FREYA JOBBINS' anguished etchings and lithographs, her flesh is cut in sections and weighted down with all the expectations of others and what they want from her. JULIA BOROS, acknowledging the technique of Victorian-era cyanotypes, captures an impression of her own female form on fabric.

In a related process CHRISTOPHER BUCKLOW combines drawing and photography to cast thousands of tiny circles of sunlight upon a silhouette with a pinhole camera to create the ghostly illusion of a three-dimensional figure.

The resin sculptures of NOLA DIAMANTOPOULOS explore the dynamic and invisible life force that surrounds us. In contrast ANNE MacDONALD's photographic series are symbolic distillations of death.

In association with the fictive bodies on the gallery walls, Artereal offers the opportunity to participate in a free life drawing workshop. Contact the gallery or website for more information.

Artereal welcomes you to join the artists on opening night, Thursday 8 March at 6 - 8pm .

For further information visit www.artereal.com.au or call Rebecca Denning on (02) 9818 7473.

For media queries contact Rea Francis rfmedia@iprimus.com.au or 0414 250 790.

Artereal is located at 747 Darling Street , Rozelle.

Body of Work 8 March - 5 April 2007

Gallery hours Wed - Sat, 11am - 5pm

Opening night
Thursday 8 March at
6 - 8pm

RSVP 1 March rebecca@artereal.com.au