Artwork
Light from Light 2010
Self powered geodesic dome
Photovoltaic custom-built panels, acrylic, neon and aluminium frame
Light from Light is a commissioned sculpture that continues Burchill & McCamley’s collaborative oeuvre, recognisably reflected in the use of materials such as acrylic and neon. A series of photovoltaic cells take on the iconic triangulated form of the geodesic dome and provide power for the underlying neon sculpture.
State Library of Queensland location: Front entrance garden
Shanghai Library: Courtyard garden
About the artists
Melbourne based artists Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley undertook a MAAP residency over 2009 to 2010, in order to research new solar technologies (Built-In Photovoltaics) to develop their temporary public artwork Light From Light, displayed at the State Library Queensland and the Shanghai Library in China (2010 – 2011).
As part of their residency, Burchill and McCamely visited Brisbane in early 2009 to help scope the Light from Light exhibition concept and design.
Their interest in solar technologies has seen them undertake artist residencies at The International Art Space Kellerberrin Australia (IASKA) and the University of Woolongong to develop art and research in this area.
Since 1985 Burchill and McCamley have been frequent collaborators and have had numerous individual and collaborative solo exhibitions both in Australia and internationally. Their art practice interlaces feminist, psychoanalytic, filmic, semiotic and spatial concerns, with language, and the language of art, film and popular culture, central to their work.
A major survey of their collaborative works, Tip of the Iceberg: Selected works 1985–2001, was held in 2001 at the University Art Museum, University of Queensland, and at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne. Recent solo projects included Neon 2005, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and All That Rises Must Converge, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne. Recent group exhibitions include 21st Century Modern, 2006 Adelaide Biennial, Art Gallery of South Australia. Burchill and McCamley have both been awarded a number of international residencies including the Australia Council Studio, Paris, and the Künstlerhaus Bethanien Studio, Berlin, to Burchill; and the University of Sydney Power Studio, Paris, and the Australia Council Studio, Tokyo, to McCamley. They lived from 1992 until 1996 in Berlin, where they were jointly awarded the Berlin Senate Art Scholarship in 1995. They currently live and work in Melbourne.
Artists’ C.V.
Selected Solo Exhibitions & Projects (Collaborative)
2009
Imitation of Life, Shanti Road Gallery, Bangalore, India
2008
Primary Views, Monash Museum of Art, Melbourne
Inland Empire – Solar Neon, IASKA, Kellerberrin, Western Australia
2007
COMBINE – Janet Burchill, Jennifer McCamley & Melinda Harper, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Burchill/McCamley – Films, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2006
Our level of delusion is awesome, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney
2005
NEON, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Repent and sin no more, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2004
All That rises must converge, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2003
Three neons, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
One location – Berlin 1992-1997, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2001
TIP OF THE ICEBERG; selected works 1985-2001, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane and Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
1997
One location – Berlin 1992 1996, David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane
1996
Untitled (grey sheets), Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Alphabetica, Konstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden
Charlotte Moorman drawing series 1993-1995, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney
Scum Tapes 68-96, Tower Studio, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1994
Janet Burchill/Jennifer McCamley, Lukas & Hoffmann, Cologne
1993
Janet Burchill/Jennifer McCamley, James Van Damme Gallery, Antwerp
Feld und Funktion, Volksbuhne am Rosa-Luxemberg Platz, Berlin
Janet Burchill/Jennifer McCamley, Lukas & Hoffmann, Brussels
1992
Janet Burchill/Jennifer McCamley, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Static Design for Interiors, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Duetto, Experimental Art Space, Adelaide
2009
WORD, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney
Bio-Box, wBST, Melbourne
Drawing Folio, Block Projects, Melbourne
2008
Wonderlust, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
The Ecologies Project, Monash Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Pilot at Utopian Slumps, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2007
Regarding Fear and Hope, Monash University Art Museum, Melbourne
Devotee: the will to belong to the recent past, Cabinet, London
Door Slamming festival, Neu Galerie, Berlin
Raised by wolves, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2006
New to the modern, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Turrbal-Jagera, University Art Museum, Queensland University, Brisbane
New social commentaries 06, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, Victoria
21st century modern, 2006 Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Heart and mind, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria
2005
There are no coincidences, David Pestorius Projects, Brisbane
Slave, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Interesting times, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
A short ride in a fast machine, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2004
Ed Kuepper’s music for Len Lye, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane and toured internationally
1+ 1, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney
This is not America, Queensland College of Art Gallery, Brisbane and Austellungen by Horst Schuler, Dusseldorf
2003
Bethaniendamm, David Pestorius Art Projects, Art Forum, Berlin
2001
Parallel structures, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne and SouthBank, Brisbane
2001
National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1998
Graphic, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1997
Power, corruption and lies, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1996
Photography is dead, long live photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Poolshoogte, contemporary photography from Holland, Belgium and Germany, Nederland Foot Institute, Rotterdam
1995
Burchill-McCamley, Duwenhogger-Hohn, Marfetti-Majerski,
Wiensowski und Harbord, Berlin
Oikos und eigenbau, Littenstrasse, Berlin
Kine (Kunst) 95, International Festival of Art Films, Knokke, Belgium
1994
Virtual reality, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Accrochage, Lukas & Hoffmann, Cologne 1993
Building, dwelling, thinking, feeling, Rainer Borgemeister, Berlin
Wit’s End, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
‘E’, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Unikat unlimitiert, Studio Bildende Kunst, Berlin
Human alchemy, La Fabbrica di Seta-Arte Contemporanea, Arrezzo, Italy 1991 Banal art, Artspace, Sydney
1989
Australian Perspecta 1989, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Experimental film by Australian artists, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley (澳大利亚)
光源自光 Light from Light 2010
自我供电的多面穹顶
特制太阳能节源板，有机玻璃，霓虹灯，铝架
“光源自光”是一件本展委托订制的雕塑作品同时代表了Burchill与
McCamley之间的长期艺术合作，这种合作关系经常体现在她们所取用的材料上，如有机玻璃板及霓虹灯。一系列光电元件以多面穹顶的标志性三角型为排列图案，为下方的霓虹灯装置提供电源。