Kim Donaldson
Australia

Kim Donaldson

Kim Donaldson's From the Museum: Supplementary Files, continues her ongoing investigation of the meaning & value of objects. Based on the cataloguing systems of the museum, this video installation explores personal history through an examination of a collection of objects. It’s About Time, was shown at RMIT Gallery after a regional tour, which visited Geelong Art Gallery, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery and Gippsland Art Gallery - Sale. In 1996-97, From the Lecture; A Reminder of Life, was seen at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art & Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. Her work was also shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, as part of the exhibition Personal Effects: The Collective Unconscious, July - Sept,

1998.

Ole Jorgen Ness

Since 1986, Ole Jorgen Ness has housed a series of various artist personalities within his own identity. Each person has his own individual and concrete artistic production ranging from painting, sculpture and drawing to conceptual art and installation. In the last few years Ness's personas overcame previous antagonisms to form a collective, 'Nesstudio'. Within this new situation the personas have evolved new skills in collaborative practice, enabling them to undertake a World Tour, 'Presence 98'. At h. Ness worked on-site relating to various elements the environment provides. By applying his nine psycho-modes, handling available material, Ness produced a current image of a "momo-mental E/COLLECTIVE SYSTEM" and show how it deals with space as it moves in time.

Supplementary Files

Kim Donaldson

July 2 - 26 1998

SCENES FOR A MUSEUM

1. Description: Australian made, solid iron crowbar, 8cm in diameter, 1.48 metres in length. The shaft is four-sided, gradually decreasing in diameter to a blunter point at the base. The top is distinguished by a small bulb. An illegible foundry stamp appears on the shaft approximately 10cm from the base. Condition; Good Date: c. 1850 Provenance: Unknown

Once, when a small boy, my grandfather was helping his father with some carpentry in the shed at the bottom of the garden. It was a warm summer's afternoon and the sleepy boy was growing bored with obeying his father's gruff instructions. Spying a crowbar leaning on the wall near the door he idly grasped it, but it's unexpected solid iron weight proved too much to bear, and it fell over onto his father's foot. His father set out a howl, accompanied by a string of expletives, which could be heard clearly by my grandfather's mother in the laundry next to the house. Recounting this story, at the age of 95, my grandfather's rheumy blue eyes would grow even more distant and his old face would crinkle up with silent laughter.

2. Description: Disk shaped, plastic and metal badge approximately 2cm radius. On the plastic faceted recto is an image of the Disney character Tinkerbell and the word "Disneyland" which alternates with the words "I tink it's great" depending on the angle of viewing. On the verso appear the words "Made in Japan". Condition: Poor Date: c. 1960 Provenance; Anonymous gift

The old Chevrolet had clocked up over 300 miles that day when the father asked his three fractious children whether they would rather go to Disneyland or the Grand Canyon. Sensing their father's preference but unable to resist their childish desires they cried in chorus "Disneyland!"

3. Description; Australian made, salt and pepper set in black ebony wood. Both 28cm in height with a base 4cm in diameter. The body swells and tapers 20cm from the plinth-like base and then swells again to form the head of the unit. The salt unit is refilled from the head, which unscrews, while the pepper unit is equipped with a grinder, operated from the base section and refillable at the head. Condition; Some damage suffered from exposure to rain and sun Date; c. 1973 Provenance; Deceased estate

They used to entertain often and were known to their friends as a charming and devoted couple. She was tall, elegant and a gracious hostess while he was an attentive listener and a witty conversationalist. Years later, when they could no longer tolerate each other and he moved out, she presented him with the residue of their past convivialities: the punch bowl set, the wooden cheese platter, the electric coffee percolator, the oversize salt and pepper set and the matching brown and orange earthenware canisters.

Hilary Maddocks

June 1998