Rosalind Lemoh's Told. Retold. Untold exhibition at Canberra Glassworks

Artist Rosalind Lemoh opens her new show Told, Retold, Untold which looks into stories about the glassworks building.

Transcript

00:00 [SIDE CONVERSATION]

00:03 So as part of the residency that I did at Caver Glassworks

00:10 last year in October and November,

00:12 they take you through a lot of different techniques.

00:15 And sand casting was one of those times.

00:17 I was with Julie Bartholomew, who's a fantastic artist,

00:20 and Cam Michael as well.

00:22 So we were doing sand casting, which

00:24 is where you imprint directly into a bed of sand.

00:27 And so there was a few different tests.

00:30 But for me, I was working with text at the time.

00:33 I had lots and lots of notes in my diary.

00:35 I'm writing all the time, lots of ideas,

00:37 and lots of snippets of words and that kind of thing.

00:41 And so I pressed it into the sand.

00:43 And then we had Tom Rowney and Hugo Curtis working with us,

00:46 who were the glass tech and artists here.

00:49 And they poured the hot glass into that negative mold

00:54 of the sand.

00:55 And yeah, I just really loved--

00:57 it kind of opened up this new, I suppose,

01:01 way of working with glass for me,

01:02 where it connected with my practice with casting and text.

01:06 It was sort of gritty.

01:07 It's kind of industrial.

01:09 But it's also this use of words that's

01:11 kind of repetitive as well, which

01:13 kind of speaks to the, I guess, repetition of casting.

01:16 And so yeah, it really unlocked the show for me.

01:19 And that's when I sort of kicked off

01:21 in terms of using this idea of telling stories through objects

01:25 and then telling stories again and again

01:27 through the repeated casting of objects

01:29 through different materials.

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