SHIPS THAT PASS

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}

^{Video still 'Screen over Lost Islands'}

^{photography Courtesy the Artist}

CATALOGUE 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yu0ondvoxxay2vy/Ships%20That%20Pass%20Catalogue.pdf?raw=1