Katrina Carter

Today we have a society that expects and is expected to consume and discard at a rate incomprehensible to those who lived through the twentieth century. Two world wars and the depression of the 1930s influenced people's ideas about the intrinsic worth of an object. Things were cared for, repaired and reused instead of being discarded at the first sign of wear and tear. By transfixing the discards of our own domestic environment in plastic bags, Temporary reprieve asks viewers to contemplate the correlation between the seeming indestructible natural environment and the destructive plastic bags and the 'rubbish' they contain.

Katrina Carter

Laila Marie Costa

I am intrigued, inspired and concerned by the phenomenon of consumerism: the packaging, marketing and disposal of products which are created as short term solutions and then become expendable and easily forgotten. The bright colours and shiny surfaces of plastics have been rescued from city streets and footpaths, gleaned from the kitchen and recycling bins.

The floral is a metaphor for the feminine, the decorative and domestic. I explore the interior spaces that reflect the nurturing female and the cultural representations of women's work and homemaking. The images speak of the reproductive elements of nature, the transitory aspects of life, romance and sensuality. The circular symmetry evokes the earth and solar system with a subtext of the micro and macro worlds and how all is intertwined and interrelated in nature.

Laila Marie Costa