New work by Liz Menzies, winner of the 2012 Lismore Regional Gallery Graduate Award, offered annually to students graduating from Visual Arts at Southern Cross University.
āāPrivate Bitsā inverts private life to the public sphere. When do you consider yourself to be the most private, intimate, and closest to self?ā' LIZ MENZIES
āPrivate Bitsā inverts private life to the public sphere. When do you consider yourself to be the most personal, intimate, and closest to self? In āPrivate Bitsā I look at the natural state of being, the regression from our connection to our bodies and the world. Informed by the media, we act to obtain the idea of āperfectā without paying homage to our conscious existence. I find my subject by positioning myself in the backstreets with the unsuspecting. Fill my screens with the real, instead of the phoney. I locate a symbiotic battle of an undulating routine, a sliced and layered sense of self.
Liz Menzies was the 2012 winner of the annual Lismore Regional Gallery Award which offers an exhibition to a student graduating from the Bachelor of Visual Arts at Southern Cross University. The intent of the exhibition is to give students something to aim towards and to assist and support them in the difficult transition from study to professional practice and publicly exhibiting.
