By Sue Pedley
Please note that this publication is currently under review and will be subject to changes.
For 'The Womanifesto Way: Sydney Gathers', Kyati Suharto, Charlotte Mungomery and Sue Pedley have been working collaboratively to explore time, light, sound and space. The text that follows is a reflection on their work by Sue Pedley.
The work is contingent on the unfolding of motion, or an action over time or within a cycle.
The sound is layers of field recordings of our voices – in a call and response – mixed with the percussive sounds of found objects; and the ambient sound of the location – birds and distant voices.
The field recordings are a mix of improvised piano, violin and guitar played and recorded in a sound studio.
The moving Image is an accumulative collage — an extrapolation from the two dimensional into space.
Over time there is a playful evolution of mark making with paper and graphite, clay and found objects in symphony with the manipulation of light. It is the result of working at night in an industrial-sized tin shed using slides, a slide projector and objects on an overhead projector.
The kinetic aspect of the work is the positioning of the data projector overhead as a moving object projecting onto the floor and walls. The editing of the images are circular in format using new editing programs to emphasise the movement within the installation space.
Sue Pedley is a visual artist living in Sydney, she is best known for her multimedia installations, large scale drawings and collaborations. Responsive to the contingencies of the sites where she works, her recurring themes include the environmental degradation of water and its impact on communities and the natural world. Her work also focuses on issues of colonisation including addressing her family history as settlers in Tasmania.