BloodRUST
Teena McCarthy
BloodRUST
3 - 17 May 2025
Exhibition opening with the Artists
to be launched by
Dr Paul Thomas
Professor of Fine Art
UNSW Art and Design
Sunday 4 May 2025
2.30 – 4.30 pm
BloodRUST
'My new series is my response to ‘Tracey Moffatts’ Inspiring Artwork, a house installation titled ‘A Haunting’ 22/23. This series of Photographs and Poetry are my immediate and physic response to the Installation, whilst also experiencing and finding a strong sense of ‘spirit’ being out bush. A very healing one. A temple or a crime scene ?.. My feeling is the house and the land possibly had an eerie dark past, whilst set in a remote post-colonial Australian outback.
My Poetry best describes my response as my statement !'
Teena McCarthy
Teena McCarthy
Teena McCarthy is a visual artist and poet who works predominantly in painting, photography and performance art. She graduated in 2014 from UNSW Art & Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction.
McCarthy is an Italian/Barkindji woman who is a descendant of The Stolen Generations. Her work documents her family’s displacement and Aboriginal Australian’s loss of Culture and their ‘hidden’ history. While acknowledging the intergenerational pain of post colonialism, McCarthy uses wit, humour and pathos to explore her own identity. Synchronicity also comes into play in McCarthy’s experimental painting, often determining its outcome and informing its own materiality.
ARTWORKS
NEWS ABOUT THE ARTIST
59.4 cm x 84.1 cm
Hahnemuhle Photographic paper