Camillethomas https://camillethomasart.cargo.site Camillethomas Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:34:24 +0000 https://camillethomasart.cargo.site en Home https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/Home Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:59:42 +0000 Camillethomas https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/Home Camille Thomas <img width="2154" height="1364" width_o="2154" height_o="1364" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8be2a8cab810194be9b32bd05d63faaaa71fc916adfa50c21cd7c38def51ed4/unnamed-3.1.jpg" data-mid="240587113" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8be2a8cab810194be9b32bd05d63faaaa71fc916adfa50c21cd7c38def51ed4/unnamed-3.1.jpg" /> about https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/about Sat, 09 Jan 2021 02:40:55 +0000 Camillethomas https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/about Camille Thomas (b. 1998) Naarm (Melbourne) They/ them Camille Thomas is Naarm based artist, librarian, and writer. Informed by these practices Camille looks at the library as an expansive container for thinking about collection, image/art making, and knowledge sharing. Coming from a background in technical drawing they also work across collage, installation and writing, to arrange and reframe found archival and digital material. Pulled to the slowness and accumulation imperative to both artmaking and library work, Camille trawls images databases such as Wikimedia Commons, the Internet Archive and other national collections for source material. This accrual of disparate images creates an idiosyncratic inventory that pokes at systems of cataloguing, attention and maintenance in the archive, and the porosity of memory. They graduated with a BFA from RMIT in 2018, with an accompanying Honours year at VCA in 2019. They also completed a Diploma of Library and Information Services from Victoria University in 2021. Their work has been exhibited at galleries such as Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, TCB, BLINDSIDE, Cathedral Cabinet, and KINGS ARI. They are the Current Co-Director of TCB Gallery, one of Naarm’s longest running ARIs. EDUCATION: Diploma of Library and Information Services, Victoria University, (2020—2021) Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) (Visual Art), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (2019) Bachelor of Fine Arts, RMIT University, Melbourne (2016- 2018) SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2026 Netherlandish Proverbs - Gossip, Water Closet&nbsp; 2022 Lying dead in a ditch while I work in The Library of Commons, TCB Gallery 2019&nbsp; sewing without a knot at the end of the thread is not sewing, KINGS ARI GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2025&nbsp; &nbsp;Emergent Fields — Caspar Connolly, Jieun Ha &amp; Camille Thomas, Fiona Sydney Myer Gallery 2023&nbsp; Hold it up, dig, BLINDSIDE Gallery&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;KINGS ARI Fundraiser&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; TCB Gallery Fundraiser&nbsp; 2022&nbsp; The General Public, 99% Gallery &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Showing #2 invited by Francesca Zak, Suite7a, Sydney &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Walking/ Reading Library, as part of LAST Collective Residency: Low Line, Coburg Railway Station 2021 KINGS Artist Run Fundraiser &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;M16 Artspace Drawing Prize, M16 Artspace, Canberra &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The Exterminating Pencil vol.2, curated by Caspar Connolly, Cathedral Cabinet 2020&nbsp; Quivering in Quarantine: Volume II; We went down into the silent garden &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Kindled Spirits Fire Relief Fundraiser, curated by Kari Lee McInneny-McRae and Caspar Conolly, hosted by Catherine Honey 2019&nbsp; VCA Fine Art Graduate Exhibition (Hons) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Mourning Funes, with Ada Hale, C3 Contemporary Artspace 2018&nbsp; RMIT Fine Art Graduate Exhibition &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Ray Area Extensions, Curated by Dr Phil Edwards, Marquis of Lorne&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; space for debris: echoes of memory, curated by Camille Thomas, Brunswick Street Gallery &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; If You Were Buried For A Thousand Years Even You Would Be Priceless, curated by Patrick Larmour, M16 Artspace, Canberra&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Edges And In Between, First Site Gallery 2017&nbsp; NotFair Art Fair &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Feeling Into, Brunswick Street Gallery &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; SmallWorks 2017 Exhibition and Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Summer ’40, Rubicon ARI RESIDENCIES: 2023 Performing Arts Forum, four week residency, St Erme, France 2020&nbsp; JOYA: AiR, two week residency, Almeria, Spain&nbsp; PRIZES:2018&nbsp; KINGS Artist-Run Graduate Exhibition Prize 2018&nbsp; Short listed Frankie Magazine Good Stuff Awards2017&nbsp; Clifton Hill/ North Fitzroy Community Bendigo Bank Prize (BSG) 2016&nbsp; People’s choice award Top Arts 2016 BIBLIOGRAPHY:NUT II Publication, Liza Lacroix, Alli Melanson 2018 Contact https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/Contact Sun, 27 Jun 2021 10:41:22 +0000 Camillethomas https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/Contact Contact&nbsp; camillethomas.art@gmail.com Netherlandish Proverbs Gossip https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/Netherlandish-Proverbs-Gossip Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:34:24 +0000 Camillethomas https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/Netherlandish-Proverbs-Gossip Netherlandish Proverbs: Gossip Water Closet 27th March - 5 April 2026 [READ SOME KIND OF PLAY ON FOOT-IN-MOUTH... 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Emergent Fields  https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/Emergent-Fields Sat, 08 Nov 2025 05:01:27 +0000 Camillethomas https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/Emergent-Fields Emergent Fields&nbsp;— Caspar Connolly, Jieun Ha &amp; Camille Thomas Fiona and Sydney Myer Gallery, 10 Oct - 1 Nov 2025 <img width="3048" height="2032" width_o="3048" height_o="2032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5f389cca9228227b03ef97996eb886f30bf2f11b4bcabc8999cc8f493a07f0e/_28A2979.png" data-mid="240589748" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e5f389cca9228227b03ef97996eb886f30bf2f11b4bcabc8999cc8f493a07f0e/_28A2979.png" /><img width="5738" height="3825" width_o="5738" height_o="3825" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1813d00015c6997bb82be1f4df5b642b07403ac2ed03cf0c9ca4159938cb56cb/_28A29741.png" data-mid="240589801" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1813d00015c6997bb82be1f4df5b642b07403ac2ed03cf0c9ca4159938cb56cb/_28A29741.png" /><img width="3514" height="2343" width_o="3514" height_o="2343" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e64cf32a49ef578fb4b72972d92dfd2aa6e9a290130fc17b1dfe57b3a05e35e1/_28A2980.png" data-mid="240589749" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e64cf32a49ef578fb4b72972d92dfd2aa6e9a290130fc17b1dfe57b3a05e35e1/_28A2980.png" /><img width="5867" height="3911" width_o="5867" height_o="3911" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4cbebc4082030b441d375a982c98b1cc5da08f5dc2a6147ad06b602bdc00c1b/_28A2976.png" data-mid="240589747" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4cbebc4082030b441d375a982c98b1cc5da08f5dc2a6147ad06b602bdc00c1b/_28A2976.png" /><img width="2975" height="1984" width_o="2975" height_o="1984" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8762f92372f4a41134b85caeb45a5e5f6a6f791f746e849c664f6e432b8d1830/_28A2994-2.png" data-mid="240713218" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8762f92372f4a41134b85caeb45a5e5f6a6f791f746e849c664f6e432b8d1830/_28A2994-2.png" /><img width="2571" height="3428" width_o="2571" height_o="3428" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5b9d463071a5dae8c0293a175fb3f7037097b7a49199db265bcde8ade069cb1/_28A2994.png" data-mid="240589751" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5b9d463071a5dae8c0293a175fb3f7037097b7a49199db265bcde8ade069cb1/_28A2994.png" /><img width="2178" height="2736" width_o="2178" height_o="2736" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0787517a39c4dc66a0b129c0df592460467fb7c687f4ce768c09dddc91cf41d6/_28A29681-1.png" data-mid="240713213" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0787517a39c4dc66a0b129c0df592460467fb7c687f4ce768c09dddc91cf41d6/_28A29681-1.png" /><img width="1948" height="2597" width_o="1948" height_o="2597" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8266a8386ce98dbf3d4af52da19abcdfa9ea58261f5c76a18424b5ed2ac44930/_28A2968.png" data-mid="240589746" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8266a8386ce98dbf3d4af52da19abcdfa9ea58261f5c76a18424b5ed2ac44930/_28A2968.png" /><img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/976f47caded17d78b5fbadab5cc0b6143ee48d064b4ab58a09f86d72c1522298/bosch.png" data-mid="240713192" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/976f47caded17d78b5fbadab5cc0b6143ee48d064b4ab58a09f86d72c1522298/bosch.png" /><img width="4115" height="2744" width_o="4115" height_o="2744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/609d3ed1a887fafa0e4ee806450ddbcfd8ff75d0cb063011889fba350097b8c3/_28A2987.png" data-mid="240589750" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/609d3ed1a887fafa0e4ee806450ddbcfd8ff75d0cb063011889fba350097b8c3/_28A2987.png" /><img width="5997" height="3998" width_o="5997" height_o="3998" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09bfb4345dd3d352fe158d7f5dcd93de5e23fb12a9de7aabd361f20853ab07b5/_28A2996.png" data-mid="240589752" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/09bfb4345dd3d352fe158d7f5dcd93de5e23fb12a9de7aabd361f20853ab07b5/_28A2996.png" /> Documentation by Lauren Dunn. Lying dead in the Ditch while I work in the Library of Commons https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/Lying-dead-in-the-Ditch-while-I-work-in-the-Library-of-Commons Wed, 08 Mar 2023 22:45:51 +0000 Camillethomas https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/Lying-dead-in-the-Ditch-while-I-work-in-the-Library-of-Commons Lying dead in the Ditch while I work in the Library of CommonsTCB Gallery, 14th Dec 2022 — 22nd Jan 2023 The Library of Commons is down a long corridor several stories up, in one of those sharable officespaces. Some say, that due to its size, the library inhabits more of a supply closet, than a rentableoffice space that centres community and cohabitation. There are a lot of whispers about what goeson in the library, but no one knows for sure. Its sole worker trudges in everyday to sit at their onewindow desk and begins to work. While this is an office space, the worker never arrives inprofessional attire, nor at a regular time each day—this is a liberty not afforded to most librarians,commuting for their 8am starts to ensure their doors are open for the readers of books. Slinking in,in their baggy clothes, they sit, surrounded by empty pill boxes and dried out old tea mugs, scouringthe archives for the next prize in their collection. <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e12a0df5dd8032ff39231be7eea8de3d91266e00db4af947963f7cf4ae5428f/_MG_7204.jpg" data-mid="171038787" border="0" data-scale="100" alt="Found on internship: The fortune Teller by Georges de La Tour, 1630s (detail) graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2021 (detail)" data-caption="Found on internship: The fortune Teller by Georges de La Tour, 1630s (detail) graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2021 (detail)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e12a0df5dd8032ff39231be7eea8de3d91266e00db4af947963f7cf4ae5428f/_MG_7204.jpg" /><img width="5463" height="3670" width_o="5463" height_o="3670" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d275affc062c938d0131076ed129dcb902b2e6a049ec0e6f2d9315ae7f996e8/_MG_7210.jpg" data-mid="171038768" border="0" alt="An Ode to Lois Dodd; I am a house on fire graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2021" data-caption="An Ode to Lois Dodd; I am a house on fire graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d275affc062c938d0131076ed129dcb902b2e6a049ec0e6f2d9315ae7f996e8/_MG_7210.jpg" /><img width="5329" height="3547" width_o="5329" height_o="3547" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a0f6bbdfb9bb312b97a7e7f2a61799f6073d424ea7412473b06a3a51be0bd82/_MG_7220-2.jpg" data-mid="171039515" border="0" alt="Translation from Balkan Erotic Epic, 2005 graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2021" data-caption="Translation from Balkan Erotic Epic, 2005 graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a0f6bbdfb9bb312b97a7e7f2a61799f6073d424ea7412473b06a3a51be0bd82/_MG_7220-2.jpg" /><img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d603ca081cbbe0ddf56d97f92806928ed216418ec6bf563dffb9b36dd5fc7071/_MG_7224.jpg" data-mid="171038779" border="0" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d603ca081cbbe0ddf56d97f92806928ed216418ec6bf563dffb9b36dd5fc7071/_MG_7224.jpg" /><img width="5393" height="3626" width_o="5393" height_o="3626" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0c60ba92d70befa1b6befa64c02ead2910fa027b39533636a13f6673176ef7c/_MG_7214.jpg" data-mid="171038771" border="0" alt="Antique children's doll kitchens graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2022" data-caption="Antique children's doll kitchens graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0c60ba92d70befa1b6befa64c02ead2910fa027b39533636a13f6673176ef7c/_MG_7214.jpg" /><img width="5340" height="3476" width_o="5340" height_o="3476" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e65e653b91e930d45bcef3e7996cb778eef605ecd5b4540744786d46badd23f5/_MG_7222.jpg" data-mid="171038778" border="0" alt="Raurisertal-Schnabel Perchten graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2022" data-caption="Raurisertal-Schnabel Perchten graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e65e653b91e930d45bcef3e7996cb778eef605ecd5b4540744786d46badd23f5/_MG_7222.jpg" /><img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4701b777d69dc9d25c67ed7370047727765af4047e7e730aa976e2ee32427714/_MG_7215.jpg" data-mid="171038772" border="0" alt="Eating ribs while watching Jan &Scaron;vankmajer's Alice (1988) graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2022" data-caption="Eating ribs while watching Jan Švankmajer's Alice (1988) graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4701b777d69dc9d25c67ed7370047727765af4047e7e730aa976e2ee32427714/_MG_7215.jpg" /><img width="2712" height="1912" width_o="2712" height_o="1912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a46b08a7ab99232d84222c6f9c1e4182428a263c4d61864249776ad90780d5e/_MG_7193.jpg" data-mid="171038784" border="0" alt="Beauty contest in the Ryazan women's juvenile colony, 1989 graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2021 (detail)" data-caption="Beauty contest in the Ryazan women's juvenile colony, 1989 graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2021 (detail)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a46b08a7ab99232d84222c6f9c1e4182428a263c4d61864249776ad90780d5e/_MG_7193.jpg" /><img width="5522" height="3632" width_o="5522" height_o="3632" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50fcc8dac44874790d4ec759dec5b66357a139b64027d2d29cedac90acec7ffa/_MG_7216.jpg" data-mid="171038774" border="0" alt="Piggy mouth Screenshot (7) graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2022" data-caption="Piggy mouth Screenshot (7) graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/50fcc8dac44874790d4ec759dec5b66357a139b64027d2d29cedac90acec7ffa/_MG_7216.jpg" /><img width="5538" height="3592" width_o="5538" height_o="3592" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/215607747f479fc6b8e9660b635aa6837fd06d882de1d4a0ca93a667485eb817/_MG_7207.jpg" data-mid="171038788" border="0" alt="An angel at my table, shoes graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2022" data-caption="An angel at my table, shoes graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/215607747f479fc6b8e9660b635aa6837fd06d882de1d4a0ca93a667485eb817/_MG_7207.jpg" /><img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c053a8a94a8ea9c5319e0759fc10e3e7b741115db6708839b0adb2fbee5471c/_MG_7213.jpg" data-mid="171038770" border="0" alt="For Elsie; magic egg samich graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2022" data-caption="For Elsie; magic egg samich graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c053a8a94a8ea9c5319e0759fc10e3e7b741115db6708839b0adb2fbee5471c/_MG_7213.jpg" /><img width="5448" height="3744" width_o="5448" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e75ec8f42660a1d7feafd8564c3f61a2f4a72befa344a98ef005759159e4326/_MG_7208.jpg" data-mid="171038789" border="0" alt="Translation: god who.../there is no god graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2021" data-caption="Translation: god who.../there is no god graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e75ec8f42660a1d7feafd8564c3f61a2f4a72befa344a98ef005759159e4326/_MG_7208.jpg" /><img width="5505" height="3543" width_o="5505" height_o="3543" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b4134df4666e4d01bc4bb342a4d25fa45ec6ed536d617862d2200980a5866e6/_MG_7212.jpg" data-mid="171038769" border="0" alt="Monica Lewinsky rides in a car driven by one of her lawyers in downtown Washington, DC, August 1998 graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2021" data-caption="Monica Lewinsky rides in a car driven by one of her lawyers in downtown Washington, DC, August 1998 graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b4134df4666e4d01bc4bb342a4d25fa45ec6ed536d617862d2200980a5866e6/_MG_7212.jpg" /><img width="5152" height="3460" width_o="5152" height_o="3460" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5cf57716a8814205762177bf9b5b2248309616e2899cdec29e292a06599890d9/_MG_7221.jpg" data-mid="171038777" border="0" alt="Hawkmoth_(Psilogramma_menephron)&mdash;The death of the moth graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2022" data-caption="Hawkmoth_(Psilogramma_menephron)—The death of the moth graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5cf57716a8814205762177bf9b5b2248309616e2899cdec29e292a06599890d9/_MG_7221.jpg" /><img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/910d6dc49a6d9b6190c267714aaaa75301f0a56ed91da14bcfafc46884bfcdc2/_MG_7219.jpg" data-mid="171038775" border="0" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/910d6dc49a6d9b6190c267714aaaa75301f0a56ed91da14bcfafc46884bfcdc2/_MG_7219.jpg" /><img width="5454" height="3657" width_o="5454" height_o="3657" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c075e696f41a63bd4bf91dcd99f1792aa2cf0df1fdd5ebe44d3347b2b254366/_MG_7226.jpg" data-mid="171038780" border="0" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c075e696f41a63bd4bf91dcd99f1792aa2cf0df1fdd5ebe44d3347b2b254366/_MG_7226.jpg" /><img width="5383" height="3526" width_o="5383" height_o="3526" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/356a6936bb7c53763ffda65381f2770056224f9ad383fa6029a75d0fabcf2e70/_MG_7227-2.jpg" data-mid="171046704" border="0" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/356a6936bb7c53763ffda65381f2770056224f9ad383fa6029a75d0fabcf2e70/_MG_7227-2.jpg" /><img width="5452" height="3624" width_o="5452" height_o="3624" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/90c6fdea1b4a00548145a24a139e48a36b34d7ac6914969f006affa5401b1130/_MG_7228-2.jpg" data-mid="171046696" border="0" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/90c6fdea1b4a00548145a24a139e48a36b34d7ac6914969f006affa5401b1130/_MG_7228-2.jpg" /><img width="5534" height="3555" width_o="5534" height_o="3555" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44de3c2cbfbfc5038c807e0ac6ca6bb45c1a8fcd7573c57c432d2eba30002aef/_MG_7197.jpg" data-mid="171038785" border="0" alt="Installation view" data-caption="Installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44de3c2cbfbfc5038c807e0ac6ca6bb45c1a8fcd7573c57c432d2eba30002aef/_MG_7197.jpg" /><img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca07c46ba7c01ed5ef504313c535ef61da840b88543ab8f97be0f0cd54c93fd4/_MG_7202.jpg" data-mid="171038786" border="0" alt="Found on internship: The fortune Teller by Georges de La Tour, 1630s (detail) graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2021" data-caption="Found on internship: The fortune Teller by Georges de La Tour, 1630s (detail) graphite on paper, 21 x 29.7cm, 2021" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca07c46ba7c01ed5ef504313c535ef61da840b88543ab8f97be0f0cd54c93fd4/_MG_7202.jpg" /> Documentation by Alex Hobba. Walking/ Reading Library https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/Walking-Reading-Library Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:53:54 +0000 Camillethomas https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/Walking-Reading-Library Walking/ Reading Library, as part of LAST Collective Residency: Low Line, Coburg As a part of LAST Collective’s residency at the Coburg train station, I was invited to perform a three hour durational piece. For three hours I walked around the perimeter of the train station reading aloud from a selection of texts routinely, stopping to set up my mobile library. Viewers were invited to also participate in the reading, select an alternative text or be read to. Some of the texts included Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, Elizabeth Newman’s Texts, Moyra Davey’s Index Cards, and Gertrude Stein’s Food. <img width="1107" height="709" width_o="1107" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b791f8d45590f58f1391c561a76cbfedca28ad92423086b7aeb1e7a48c99d79d/EA57F8E6-7FEC-47D2-9EA0-1AD5F9B718FA_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="160708682" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b791f8d45590f58f1391c561a76cbfedca28ad92423086b7aeb1e7a48c99d79d/EA57F8E6-7FEC-47D2-9EA0-1AD5F9B718FA_1_105_c.jpeg" /><img width="886" height="886" width_o="886" height_o="886" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39e237303d684214d451970bff487d0de7ac468be614dfb1fea3c7c95e1f1ca7/4646655C-8DB6-48E8-AE0A-FBDDDA44E170_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="160708678" border="0" data-scale="44" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/886/i/39e237303d684214d451970bff487d0de7ac468be614dfb1fea3c7c95e1f1ca7/4646655C-8DB6-48E8-AE0A-FBDDDA44E170_1_105_c.jpeg" />&nbsp; The Exterminating Pencil vol.2 https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/The-Exterminating-Pencil-vol-2 Mon, 05 Aug 2024 06:31:07 +0000 Camillethomas https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/The-Exterminating-Pencil-vol-2 THE EXTERMINATING PENCIL VOL. 2Curated by Caspar ConnollyWorks by Claudia Van Eeden, Camille Thomas, Nick Mullaly, Jordan Grant, Alexandra Ragg, Tom Kent, Nicholas Mahady, Caspar Connoll, and Gabriella D’Costa.27 June - 7th August 2021Cathedral Cabinet <img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dee065dc410b3e5700525c3abac92df23848c6c7fef5f30ead1dc6f375e0d3d8/IMG_1769.jpeg" data-mid="215823477" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dee065dc410b3e5700525c3abac92df23848c6c7fef5f30ead1dc6f375e0d3d8/IMG_1769.jpeg" /><img width="1481" height="1114" width_o="1481" height_o="1114" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/088174f9d2ddb0fdbbb3ada640ef75c6091acd6171d3bbd4fb52d1df3c038222/IMG_1784.jpeg" data-mid="215823473" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/088174f9d2ddb0fdbbb3ada640ef75c6091acd6171d3bbd4fb52d1df3c038222/IMG_1784.jpeg" /><img width="10759" height="7645" width_o="10759" height_o="7645" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66fd15aae2fee65d62ccc4bdaa35a9bbe3029cfb8acf2b570ebfc7fc5f93742f/thomas_camille_Translationfrom-Balkan-Erotic-Epic--2005_DDP23.jpg" data-mid="215823387" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66fd15aae2fee65d62ccc4bdaa35a9bbe3029cfb8acf2b570ebfc7fc5f93742f/thomas_camille_Translationfrom-Balkan-Erotic-Epic--2005_DDP23.jpg" /><img width="1132" height="1276" width_o="1132" height_o="1276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f8c788f9c40476ce97c3386ad2179c007175ca709273d263d18cbd74ae37d91/Screen-Shot-2024-08-05-at-4.41.47-pm.png" data-mid="215823514" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f8c788f9c40476ce97c3386ad2179c007175ca709273d263d18cbd74ae37d91/Screen-Shot-2024-08-05-at-4.41.47-pm.png" /> Honours Graduate Exhibition https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/Honours-Graduate-Exhibition Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:53:22 +0000 Camillethomas https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/Honours-Graduate-Exhibition Grad Show (Honours), Victorian College of the Arts, 2019 <img width="4288" height="2848" width_o="4288" height_o="2848" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e38b0eda29930e0c5683f3c4aaf06c155e3dd896a087277ff52e2ab7fd7e3c8e/20181213-DSC_6455-copy.jpg" data-mid="96479129" border="0" alt="installation view" data-caption="installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e38b0eda29930e0c5683f3c4aaf06c155e3dd896a087277ff52e2ab7fd7e3c8e/20181213-DSC_6455-copy.jpg" /> <img width="4288" height="2848" width_o="4288" height_o="2848" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8542a492124ccc11d5acd697541cd081c64c6dcf19881079c6f5e882c7017ed0/20181213-DSC_6413-copy.jpg" data-mid="96479117" border="0" alt="wax tray, dead weed, blowfly" data-caption="wax tray, dead weed, blowfly" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8542a492124ccc11d5acd697541cd081c64c6dcf19881079c6f5e882c7017ed0/20181213-DSC_6413-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2848" height="4288" width_o="2848" height_o="4288" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e97b2590acaf350b6420440a01925e30dc976d44c2c82fac90542d85a6f9cb09/20181213-DSC_6439-copy.jpg" data-mid="96479123" border="0" alt="wax block cast of the curve of my back" data-caption="wax block cast of the curve of my back" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e97b2590acaf350b6420440a01925e30dc976d44c2c82fac90542d85a6f9cb09/20181213-DSC_6439-copy.jpg" /> <img width="4288" height="2848" width_o="4288" height_o="2848" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95bf35a0fd14c41b92f30038b979c08d57490173c6dc9da2d745cb993b76aec4/20181213-DSC_6421-copy.jpg" data-mid="96479120" border="0" alt="gauze shelf, rotting pear" data-caption="gauze shelf, rotting pear" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95bf35a0fd14c41b92f30038b979c08d57490173c6dc9da2d745cb993b76aec4/20181213-DSC_6421-copy.jpg" /> <img width="4288" height="2848" width_o="4288" height_o="2848" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb7772b785f38598a7925b63431e0011cd93e2f3a8b1bdfae2d6170b2a2d12ba/20181213-DSC_6466-copy.jpg" data-mid="96479132" border="0" alt="beeswax bobby pin, collected hair" data-caption="beeswax bobby pin, collected hair" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb7772b785f38598a7925b63431e0011cd93e2f3a8b1bdfae2d6170b2a2d12ba/20181213-DSC_6466-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2848" height="4288" width_o="2848" height_o="4288" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/189368dfed0e5dec9de05e5ca7eeb82bd21fd056f171e234ec0ca21275cba993/20181213-DSC_6411-copy.jpg" data-mid="96479116" border="0" alt="rotting studio pears" data-caption="rotting studio pears" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/189368dfed0e5dec9de05e5ca7eeb82bd21fd056f171e234ec0ca21275cba993/20181213-DSC_6411-copy.jpg" /> <img width="4288" height="2848" width_o="4288" height_o="2848" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe7464b002d2937d73ca1fe891f8e8f150a655eab014f5a185b01ed6c23df6e3/20181213-DSC_6430-copy.jpg" data-mid="96479122" border="0" alt="installation detail: rotting pears, email print-out (a) overlaid with pear syrup, bronze cast, wax block" data-caption="installation detail: rotting pears, email print-out (a) overlaid with pear syrup, bronze cast, wax block" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe7464b002d2937d73ca1fe891f8e8f150a655eab014f5a185b01ed6c23df6e3/20181213-DSC_6430-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2848" height="4288" width_o="2848" height_o="4288" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c622fd886b476aeb4c0b39895a0cce6442381a403e821be2e56c446f3598045f/20181213-DSC_6462-copy.jpg" data-mid="96479131" border="0" alt="email print-out (a) overlaid with pear syrup detail with bronze cast of wax moulded to the inside of my mouth " data-caption="email print-out (a) overlaid with pear syrup detail with bronze cast of wax moulded to the inside of my mouth " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c622fd886b476aeb4c0b39895a0cce6442381a403e821be2e56c446f3598045f/20181213-DSC_6462-copy.jpg" /> <img width="4288" height="2848" width_o="4288" height_o="2848" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08f67986c89908f86d6c19437188b0bee40de73dd2ba4959a11335d6c9bff614/20181213-DSC_6445-copy.jpg" data-mid="96479124" border="0" alt="bronze cast of the mole on my neck" data-caption="bronze cast of the mole on my neck" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08f67986c89908f86d6c19437188b0bee40de73dd2ba4959a11335d6c9bff614/20181213-DSC_6445-copy.jpg" /> <img width="4288" height="2848" width_o="4288" height_o="2848" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6eb5dc2aa4d28124ed7ea21048b7226d06f06c3d46ea503e7ecb7e1f8781ada7/20181213-DSC_6448-copy.jpg" data-mid="96479127" border="0" alt="cotton stitches imbedded in wall" data-caption="cotton stitches imbedded in wall" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6eb5dc2aa4d28124ed7ea21048b7226d06f06c3d46ea503e7ecb7e1f8781ada7/20181213-DSC_6448-copy.jpg" /> <img width="4288" height="2848" width_o="4288" height_o="2848" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c530d5868c017575e16914cd20fcdb61e3264f443142fe3f5ff35b20416f997f/20181213-DSC_6447-copy.jpg" data-mid="96479125" border="0" alt="cotton stitches imbedded in wall" data-caption="cotton stitches imbedded in wall" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c530d5868c017575e16914cd20fcdb61e3264f443142fe3f5ff35b20416f997f/20181213-DSC_6447-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2848" height="4288" width_o="2848" height_o="4288" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f760714757a553898fb0eb91265c4eee3f51ea34a7ab115f374199c3ca406c6/20181213-DSC_6427-copy.jpg" data-mid="96479121" border="0" alt="broken beeswax comb, roots, hair" data-caption="broken beeswax comb, roots, hair" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f760714757a553898fb0eb91265c4eee3f51ea34a7ab115f374199c3ca406c6/20181213-DSC_6427-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2848" height="4288" width_o="2848" height_o="4288" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58bb5120c9903aeebcea016101fac457c78ed4ac201161ce0c8cd9b0fa497223/20181213-DSC_6416-copy.jpg" data-mid="96479119" border="0" alt="email print-out (b) overlaid with pear syrup" data-caption="email print-out (b) overlaid with pear syrup" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58bb5120c9903aeebcea016101fac457c78ed4ac201161ce0c8cd9b0fa497223/20181213-DSC_6416-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2848" height="4288" width_o="2848" height_o="4288" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6fab42de2f76410872e1d4949672367d95dc4a2b6ccbb404b6c502f897c373a4/20181213-DSC_6458-copy.jpg" data-mid="96479130" border="0" alt="gutter weed growing out of the wall" data-caption="gutter weed growing out of the wall" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6fab42de2f76410872e1d4949672367d95dc4a2b6ccbb404b6c502f897c373a4/20181213-DSC_6458-copy.jpg" /> Documentation by Nino Muratore email print-out (a) transcript Gmail - Second tongue &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 25 November 2019 at 13:12 Camille Thomas &lt;camillethomas.art@gmail.com&gt; To: Alexandra Hobba &lt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&gt; Here on the ground is a solid bronze mound, (a rhyme to start). When you look at it, it does not give away where it has come from, or how it got to here. Protruding are marks and interferences, it has no smooth surface. If you get close enough you can see the imprint of molars caressing its shape. But how? It is a solid piece of metal. Here before you is a clump of bronze; it was once wax that sat inside my mouth for several hours while I slowly poured layers of wax into another cast (of my back), can you find it? I think about trace and impression,—the shape of someone else—of myself left in another. The mouth is pooling with bacteria. When you are kissing someone you are locked in a constant exchange of your own and someone else’s fluids. Someone’s tongue gets to know the inside of your own mouth. I trace the inside of my mouth—to replicate of a movement or gesture that in essence cannot be captured (cast) between two people. Perhaps in some way to confront the loneliness of my own mouth— clearly, I feel it is not being traced enough. I want to highlight the beautiful and disgusting that comes from the inside of your mouth, from the most common form of intimacy (perhaps after sex and before cuddling in the scale of intimate acts). This wax becomes a second tongue. It sits against the silky walls of my cheeks, rubbing up against the edges of my molars. It is a visceral affair. An orifice being invaded. I pull this tongue from my mouth to speak, to warm it back together after I have lost my resist to bite down on its soft body as if it were a sweet. When water (spit) convalesces with the molecular structure of wax, it becomes grainy and difficult to stick together. It begins to repel itself. Now my mouth in just full of spit and wax debris. I must remove it, dry away excess, push back together and return to the mouth. I must not bite down on my own tongue. email print-out (b) transcript Gmail - I work in a gallery, I stand watch over the artwork and am there to...&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 4 August 2019 at 15:41 Camille Thomas &lt;camillethomas.art@gmail.com&gt; To: Alexandra Hobba &lt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&gt; I work in a gallery, I stand watch over the artwork and am there to answer any questions. So there is a lot of time for people watching, as lately we haven’t had much to be violated by the uninvited touch of a visitor, and no one really ever wants to talk to us. It is a mind numbing set of hours between getting there and leaving. Two girls come in carrying mini toy handbags, with a toy cat or dog head sewn to one end. The bags hold no purpose, you cannot put anything else in them – I do not know what they would have to put in them any way, as they are both under ten and already wearing backpacks. But this is a known feeling, of carrying something without purpose. Especially something small, arbitrary and essential to girlhood. Carrying dead weight. I do not know exactly where I stand now in relation to my gender, like Judith Butler “I do not wake up in the morning and pick out the clothes that will assign me my gender”. But I do identify with girlhood. I was raised a girl, and so hold a private affinity with girlness, one that is tender and does not relate to its depiction in mass culture/ consumerism. Similarly it is he same affinity I share with womanhood, one that does not extend itself to an enjoyment or comfortability with the term (or house) female. But back to the bags, I feel I have carried many bags in my life, this thesis is one of them. A capsule of everything I have read, thought, wrote, looked at, and made, I carry them all round with me, like the books I lug to and from the studio everyday without looking at them. The action still feels important. As a child I had many tiny bags, I still have a lot of them; rainbow glass bead bag no bigger than a matchbox; a little mermaid pocket of about the same size; a mint green woven bag the shape of a sphere, squashed in the centre, held together with a brass clip; a fuzzy white handbag I imagined to look a lot like the moon; the bag my Papa brought me back from India that was put away in a draw, as it was a big girl bag. I imagine the bag of my thesis – or rather this honours year, a carpet bag. Like Mary Poppin’s one, it is never ending in its capacity to hold all the random things I am trying to bring together, with a depth of vastness unseen to the plain eye, staring at this lumpy brown bag. There is ritual in the way I pack my bag everyday.Sent from my iPhone Mourning Funes https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/Mourning-Funes Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:53:22 +0000 Camillethomas https://camillethomasart.cargo.site/Mourning-Funes Mourning Funes, C3 Artspace, July 2019 <img width="1600" height="1065" width_o="1600" height_o="1065" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6fa8c3208fb08b3bb99ac345e7f0e01fdd4925fc32279a743571aeaccf54ce34/C3_aug-30.jpg" data-mid="96482787" border="0" alt="Camille Thomas, (This Beast) The First Time I got Fingered was in a Grotto, graphite on cotton rag" data-caption="Camille Thomas, (This Beast) The First Time I got Fingered was in a Grotto, graphite on cotton rag" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6fa8c3208fb08b3bb99ac345e7f0e01fdd4925fc32279a743571aeaccf54ce34/C3_aug-30.jpg" /><img width="1600" height="1065" width_o="1600" height_o="1065" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/261046d970a2aadce5bd4c13364cd448e4acfbbd69635d7ed5c4e37d74a10fc8/C3_aug-29.jpg" data-mid="96482786" border="0" alt="Camille Thomas, Detail of Bosch Painting I Saw on Tumblr and Sent to Ada, graphite on cotton rag paper" data-caption="Camille Thomas, Detail of Bosch Painting I Saw on Tumblr and Sent to Ada, graphite on cotton rag paper" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/261046d970a2aadce5bd4c13364cd448e4acfbbd69635d7ed5c4e37d74a10fc8/C3_aug-29.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1065" width_o="1600" height_o="1065" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91b8de757040a3e70608f2625ed2745a9dea7cd5f8d2f1d3ea45fdfcc6ac991c/C3_aug-26.jpg" data-mid="96482783" border="0" alt="Crying Angel; Detail of Bosch Painting I Saw on Tumblr and Sent to Ada" data-caption="Crying Angel; Detail of Bosch Painting I Saw on Tumblr and Sent to Ada" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/91b8de757040a3e70608f2625ed2745a9dea7cd5f8d2f1d3ea45fdfcc6ac991c/C3_aug-26.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1065" width_o="1600" height_o="1065" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0400e3e8ec89684607e6dd613377dd250e7397dd38c734a0374b82ea8fa7f29f/C3_aug-36.jpg" data-mid="96482515" border="0" alt="installation view" data-caption="installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0400e3e8ec89684607e6dd613377dd250e7397dd38c734a0374b82ea8fa7f29f/C3_aug-36.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1065" width_o="1600" height_o="1065" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a91d25168ffc9081ae267ee9badc3e60bdf8b65aa9bc1f9ff2d9a31134f3dd0d/C3_aug-37.jpg" data-mid="96482516" border="0" alt="installation view" data-caption="installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a91d25168ffc9081ae267ee9badc3e60bdf8b65aa9bc1f9ff2d9a31134f3dd0d/C3_aug-37.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1065" width_o="1600" height_o="1065" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c90adf4c489c0b5eb727800b78bc7a2c3a1efa4562f0fa141e1cf1066375c11/C3_aug-38.jpg" data-mid="96482532" border="0" alt="installation view" data-caption="installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c90adf4c489c0b5eb727800b78bc7a2c3a1efa4562f0fa141e1cf1066375c11/C3_aug-38.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1065" width_o="1600" height_o="1065" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/139c14e37d45d645d33f9c35255cae86e1b5891d3866b30be49d3ee5bd72b865/C3_aug-39.jpg" data-mid="96482558" border="0" alt="installation view" data-caption="installation view" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/139c14e37d45d645d33f9c35255cae86e1b5891d3866b30be49d3ee5bd72b865/C3_aug-39.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1065" width_o="1600" height_o="1065" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aec7b01d6b14df68906cf4e1d54d0cd4fb3d15beb53a3c0102c8f6c9a483f303/C3_aug-24.jpg" data-mid="96482781" border="0" alt="Ada Hale, The Grotto Where the Great God Pan Plays, acrylic on canvas" data-caption="Ada Hale, The Grotto Where the Great God Pan Plays, acrylic on canvas" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aec7b01d6b14df68906cf4e1d54d0cd4fb3d15beb53a3c0102c8f6c9a483f303/C3_aug-24.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1065" width_o="1600" height_o="1065" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4125b62f679c2abbda22a0f9c75231b4eb5dacb0592f171da06c30779847a28e/C3_aug-28.jpg" data-mid="96482785" border="0" alt="Ada Hale, Stone Lady, concrete " data-caption="Ada Hale, Stone Lady, concrete " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4125b62f679c2abbda22a0f9c75231b4eb5dacb0592f171da06c30779847a28e/C3_aug-28.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1065" width_o="1600" height_o="1065" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbc1db3d51e1627d2c5e8373bf048f3135e572d5fc106ee102cb4220d90d2460/C3_aug-27.jpg" data-mid="96482784" border="0" alt=" Ada Hale, Crying Angel, terracotta, dried flower, on beeswaxed nails" data-caption=" Ada Hale, Crying Angel, terracotta, dried flower, on beeswaxed nails" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fbc1db3d51e1627d2c5e8373bf048f3135e572d5fc106ee102cb4220d90d2460/C3_aug-27.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1065" width_o="1600" height_o="1065" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/656a7160c811a755ec4b08f801f4ecc2c295d8b0ab2fd4fdb48f42b0cb183dff/C3_aug-31.jpg" data-mid="96482788" border="0" alt="Ada Hale, Aubade, terracotta, candles; Sacred Heart Amongst the Lillies, acrylic on canvas" data-caption="Ada Hale, Aubade, terracotta, candles; Sacred Heart Amongst the Lillies, acrylic on canvas" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/656a7160c811a755ec4b08f801f4ecc2c295d8b0ab2fd4fdb48f42b0cb183dff/C3_aug-31.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1065" width_o="1600" height_o="1065" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80902e4a54b345c4a15a2769fe13e87bd70e2d13c5f3029d79014243b6be1244/C3_aug-25.jpg" data-mid="96482782" border="0" alt="Ada Hale, Sacred Heart Amongst the Lillies, acrylic on canvas; Camille Thomas, An Offering to the Sacred Heart (of Grot), beeswax, fingernail clippings" data-caption="Ada Hale, Sacred Heart Amongst the Lillies, acrylic on canvas; Camille Thomas, An Offering to the Sacred Heart (of Grot), beeswax, fingernail clippings" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80902e4a54b345c4a15a2769fe13e87bd70e2d13c5f3029d79014243b6be1244/C3_aug-25.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1065" width_o="1600" height_o="1065" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6906af10cda9c44a442c6b82165c4b6aed1b9f840e345a04b683cae39b1dbf5c/C3_aug-32.jpg" data-mid="96482789" border="0" alt="Ada Hale, Aubade, terracotta, candles" data-caption="Ada Hale, Aubade, terracotta, candles" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6906af10cda9c44a442c6b82165c4b6aed1b9f840e345a04b683cae39b1dbf5c/C3_aug-32.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1065" width_o="1600" height_o="1065" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/599e47a9828c2bf78b81a3e65f96be8efd9917ba54b7d19da0e7ed7377a6701b/C3_aug-34.jpg" data-mid="96482791" border="0" alt="Camille Thomas, Sprouted garlic, candle" data-caption="Camille Thomas, Sprouted garlic, candle" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/599e47a9828c2bf78b81a3e65f96be8efd9917ba54b7d19da0e7ed7377a6701b/C3_aug-34.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1065" width_o="1600" height_o="1065" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3130030b87042d2af86a4fe0b7baca8499d8204484f87b4f1f6cba31ebccc87f/C3_aug-33.jpg" data-mid="96482790" border="0" alt="Ada Hale, Urn, terracotta clay; Camille Thomas A Wax Replica of the Cathy Wilkes Horse I saw at PS1 (horse girls are back), and candles, beeswax" data-caption="Ada Hale, Urn, terracotta clay; Camille Thomas A Wax Replica of the Cathy Wilkes Horse I saw at PS1 (horse girls are back), and candles, beeswax" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3130030b87042d2af86a4fe0b7baca8499d8204484f87b4f1f6cba31ebccc87f/C3_aug-33.jpg" /> <img width="1065" height="1600" width_o="1065" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e1fa7428f830ff86a3bde97026d926a172964865b6f92917575702ebc4e6608/C3_aug-35.jpg" data-mid="96482792" border="0" alt="Ada Hale, Pegasus, acrylic on canvas; Camille Thomas, A Candle for Janus, beeswax, kitchen twine" data-caption="Ada Hale, Pegasus, acrylic on canvas; Camille Thomas, A Candle for Janus, beeswax, kitchen twine" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e1fa7428f830ff86a3bde97026d926a172964865b6f92917575702ebc4e6608/C3_aug-35.jpg" /> Documentation by Aaron Christopher Rees Mourning Funes is an exhibition that combines two practices that work with ritual: the ritual of making and ritual made personally sacred. Working with clay, wax, drawing and found object/ image, this installation intends to lead you by the hand through a set of seemingly encrypted images and objects: offered in the absence of a map that could be used to make connections. The act of making, as it interweaves with personal narrative, is brought together through visual references to mythology, folklore and the gothic. In creating these ceremonial works that are referential of mourning and decay, materials begin to flake, rot. Clay crumbles, candles liquesce and turn to puddles. Mourning Funes came from our shared interest in the imagery and symbolism of grottos–as well as the spaces they hold in our memories, as holes in the ground.