These kinetic works, based on the 1969 Moon Landing, are on exhibition at Stella Downer, Fine Arts, Sydney
Re-creation, Stella Downer Fine Art, 10 October to 4 November, 2017
These kinetic artworks are in a 3 person exhibition, based on the art of assemblage, at Stella Downer, Fine Art, Sydney until 4 November, 2017. The other artists in the exhibition are Liz Shreeve and Annabel Butler.
The Wager
Mother and Child
The Devil’s in the Detail
Holdsworth inserts light into her works, creating a sense of film noir in the dark nooks and crannies of her interiors. Working with found and made objects she creates intimate narratives that move from the nostalgic to the dark and subversive. In this series of works, Holdsworth engages with the Kewpie Doll, refashioning it into grander imaginary narratives – from dancing with the devil to Madonna and Child and an interior of a radio that recalls the glory of Pharlap and the races.
Excerpt from catalogue essay by Lucy Stranger
Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, 4th – 12th August 2017
Honeymoon at The Skyway Hotel
This mechanical assemblage looks at the unreliability of memory in an imaginary hotel with an impossible view to The Scenic Skyway and the 3 Sisters in Katoomba in The Blue Mountains. The ‘honeymooners’ have left their luggage in their hotel room and gone, perhaps, to drink champagne in the hotel bar.
On winding the key on the side of the work, the Skyway car can be seen moving across the valley through the hotel window while ‘The Shadow of Your Smile’ plays on a hidden music box.
A Stella Renaissance, Stella Downer Fine Art, 17th June to 15th July 2017
The Abduction of Europa, 2017, music box assemblage
This work is based on Ovid’s myth of Europa and Zeus and the Rembrandt painting The Abduction of Europa. In the myth, Zeus disguised himself as a white bull, and lured Europa onto his back before abducting her. On winding the work from underneath the bull bucks Europa up and down.
Di Holdsworth 