Christine Willcocks              
The Intertidal Zone                    
17 May - 4 June 2011                    
Flinders Lane Gallery is to once again act as a temporal space for Christine Willcocks’ imagined museum. Following on from her exhibition Musèe Imaginaire in 2010, The Intertidal Zone continues to respond to, as well as, disrupt the function of Museums. Creating personal narratives drawn from the natural world, Willcocks explores ideas of authenticity and investigates the psychology of display through the collection and presentation of objects according to her own system of classification.

‘The Intertidal Zone is the area between tidemarks, that which is exposed to the air at low tide and underwater at high tide. Having walked this zone for many years, I have in turn collected, documented and accumulated interesting, not to mention wondrous objects such as sea sponges,plastics, shells, dead birds, rocks etc. …Using various media such as drawing, printmaking, photography and 3D, thisexhibition will explore the rituals of collecting and how this act plays a key role in the preservation of our memories.’
Christine Willcocks		                  
                   
     
Installation views          
           
             
Three trees have fallen 2011
2 plate etching on handmade paper, edition of 5 (4 of 5 editions remaining)
52cm x 54cm
  Sighting the object 2011
2 plate etching on handmade paper,
edition of 5 (2 of 5 editions remaining)
52cm x 54cm
           
                 
               

Remnants 2011
2 plate etching on handmade paper, edition of 5
(4 of 5 editions remaining)
48cm x 54cm

  Tide less 2011
2 plate etching on handmade paper, edition of 5
(4 of 5 editions remaining)
60cm x 80cm		              
                   
         

Four parts of a retaining wall,
part 1 2011
carborundum print, edition of 5
39cm x 55cm

 

Four parts of a retaining wall,
part 2 2011
carborundum print, edition of 5
39cm x 55cm

   Four parts of a retaining wall,
part 3 2011
carborundum print, edition of 5
39cm x 55cm
   Four parts of a retaining wall,
part 4 2011
carborundum print, edition of 5
39cm x 55cm
    

               
   
Neap Tide, Black Coral
Graphite on
reclaimed page
20cm x 13.5cm
   Neap Tide, Scallop Shell
Graphite on
reclaimed page
20cm x 13.5cm
  

Neap Tide, Sea Sponge
Graphite on
reclaimed page
20cm x 13.5cm
         
           
Continental Shelf #1
Steel, felt, stoneware, and found objects		          
               
               
Continental Shelf #2
Steel, felt, stoneware, and found objects		              
                   
       
Continental Shelf #3
Steel, felt, stoneware, and found objects
           
               
Continental Shelf #4
Steel, felt, stoneware, and found objects
                   
               
Continental Shelf #5
Steel, felt, stoneware, and found objects