SHIPS THAT PASS PSAS CONTEMPORARY 2017
PS ArtSpace is an experimental platform for contemporary art. Large in scale, the two storey brick and iron building is rare as one of the most intact examples of its former use for the Fremantle Port as a major centre for trade and commerce.
In responding to the site , this exhibition titled ‘Ships that Pass’, is based on the poem written by H.W. Longfellow in 1874 that reflects on the idea of a sense of place and where ships are an allusion of the transitory nature of time.
Coss imagines the landscape as a backdrop for cultural migration, and places of transition between familiar and foreign terrain. She references geology, biology and the gravitational forces of water to engage with the idea of liminal spaces.
install 'Drowned islands' 2017
image courtesy the artist
Lo and behold 2017
acrylic on Canvas
160 x 340 cm
photography Courtesy the Artist
Drowned Island 1 2017
110 x 90 x 100 cm
Paper mache / Stained Cloth
photography Courtesy the Artist
'Drowned Island 1' and 'Drowned Island 2'
Paper Mache and Stained Canvas
Installation Image Courtesy the artist
Black Stain over an Undetermined Field (L) with Blue Line (M) and Nervous Objects/Material Resistence 1,2 & 3 (R)
Install image courtesy The Artist
Toxic Gravity (L) Lo and Behold (R).
photography Courtesy the Artist
