Bone Drift

Helen Pynor & Lizzie Crouch
7 May - 1 June 2025

EXHIB-PG-Helen-Pynor-and-Lizzie-Crouch-Bone-Drift-hero.jpg
Image: Bone Drift, exhibition detail, 2024. Calcined and ‘carbonized’ beef bones. Dimensions variable. Photo by Masimba Sasa. Image courtesy of the artists.

Bone Drift explores fluid (dis)ability identities, non-normative bones and unexpected connections between materials, objects, bodies and people. The exhibition is the culmination of an ongoing collaboration between artist and researcher Helen Pynor and creative producer Lizzie Crouch, located at the intersection of art, medical science, disability theory and lived experience.

The exhibition features artworks created in collaboration with diverse communities. During a series of workshops, participants examined the materiality of bone and the rituals of bone china object-making. Working with wax, metal, bone china and embroidery, participants produced a series of personal objects. The exhibition also features Pynor’s Habitation (2021), an installation in which the artist made a bone china object from her own surgically excised bone material.

—

Helen Pynor is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose work explores philosophically and experientially ambiguous zones, such as the life-death boundary. Her work has been exhibited widely, nationally and internationally, at institutions such as ZKM Karlsruhe and Science Gallery London, and she has received an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria.

Lizzie Crouch is a creative producer and researcher specialising in bringing together people with diverse expertise, backgrounds and lived experiences. Working at the intersection of arts and science, she is currently researching the role of creative producing in fostering inclusive experiences as a PhD candidate at UNSW Sydney. 


Supported by the Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf Artist in Residence Program.

 

 

Back to top