An unsual exhibition but for those who never went to cockatoo island that is a good reason to see this place in the harbour of Sydney (for those who like a ride on a little boat).
Ken Unsworth
Born in Bendigo in 1931, Ken Unsworth started as a painter but began making sculpture when he was working at Bathurst Teachers College in 1966. Unsworth has had numerous solo exhibitions, in Australia and overseas, including a major survey exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1998. Often bitterly funny, Unsworth’s work mixes light and darkness in ways that keep us off-balance.
His works have been included in the Mildura Sculpture Triennial, 1973 and 1978; the Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne, 1981, 1984 and 1993; and the Biennale of Sydney, 1976, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1990 and 2000. He has also participated in major international exhibitions including the Paris Biennale, 1985; Magiciens de la Terre, Paris, 1989; and the Biennale of Istanbul, Turkey, 1995. In 1978 Unsworth represented Australia at the Venice Biennale. He has received numerous awards including the Bi-centenary Sculpture Competition Award in 1970, and the DAAD Scholarship, Berlin, in 1987. In 1989 he was awarded an Australian Creative Fellowship, and was made a Member of the Order of Australia for service to sculpture. Ken Unsworth lives in Sydney.
Ken Unsworth is a speaker in the panel session Art for laughs: should humor be banned in the art museum?
EXHIBITION ALL ALONG JUNE 2009
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I feel that Ken Unsworth's earlier work - in particular his 'body' performative work was powerful and unique. His recent work (in particular his installation at Cockatoo Is - his homage to his recently deceased wife). I empathise with his loss but cannot find anything authentically real about his choice of piano as motif (and appropriation of Orpheus etc) in his rather bland and strangely sentimental suspended works. He seems to gather icons of schmaltz (such as a bird or mirror) and hang them as if attempting imagine that would create an installation ... I found the hospital bed to be particularly contrived....
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