Upcoming Exhibitions
Counihan Gallery - June 2008
Gershwin Hotel Artist in Residence, New York - June 2008
School of Art WA Residency - July 2008
Melbourne City Museum - September 2008
Gippsland Regional Art Gallery - November 2008

Hannah Bertram is represented by Dianne Tanzer Gallery.
www.diannetanzergallery.net.au
h a n n a h  b e r t r a m
Hannah Bertram’s work explores the possibility of preciousness within the incidental. It proposes an alternative experience of preciousness in which value is found not in the perpetuity and richness of ornamented objects, but within the subtlety of transient experiences. It intends to use the complex position of Ornament - that simultaneously adds value and is functionally superfluous - to transform banal materials located within temporary installations. This transformation of every day phenomena which, is often understood as ‘ordinary’, aims not to present an artificial preciousness but to offer an alternative experience that poetically transforms the mundane into the precious.
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