Kerryn Sylvia

Tiara

An artists book using repetition of an image and a circular concertina format to reflect the cycles of birthdays, social occasions, growth and maturing through the rights of passage taken into woman hood. The image itself is a recreation of a memory of my own sixteenth birthday replacing myself with my own daughter wearing one of my mothers old dresses. The Tiara belonged to my grandmother and links us all in that continual lineage of matriarchal experience. 

Love and other Collisions

Photographs, Laminate 

January 2011 installation 

This work references the yellow GT falcon my parents brought off the showroom floor in 1974. The significance of a family’s first new car can last a lifetime and continues to unite and divide in the quest for understanding about love and the strong ties of blood, however fractured.  

The car in its original state in the driveway of our family home January 1974.

Kerryn Sylvia

 

Ties

June 2011 Installation

Bread ties and Photographic Paper

The sphere as a incomplete entity created out of humble bread ties holds a watery little house which references the February Mildura floods and a continuing feeling of displacement.

Artist Statement
A combination of memory, family and found objects inspire and invigilate my art practice. I like to be moved by a range of materials and processes throughout the creation of work and the end results are largely governed by the way all the elements combine to express my vision.

Kerryn Sylvia completed a Bachelor of visual arts at Latrobe University in 2004, and has been exhibiting her work for over a decade. Recent exhibitions include WHITE, at Gallery 25, Mildura Palimpsest 7, and the Linden Postcard show. In addition her arts practice Kerryn has worked internationally in costume design, is a classical musician, and arts lecturer.