Vivienne Binns Retrospective at the MCA Sydney
Loved everything about this beautiful and comprehensive retrospective of Viv Binns’ art at MCA Sydney. With intellectual rigour, generosity and wit, Viv’s oeuvre encompasses iconoclastic student work, childhood identity trauma drawings, feminist research into domestic crafts, participatory community art, the sociology and geopolitics of place, friendship and the philosophy and techniques of painting. A fascinating video documents Viv’s experimental and inventive research into her means of production, her carefully organised painting studio and image archives .
1.Orange Flam 1967
2.Funky ashtray 1971
3.drawing
4.Lino, Canberra tile formation and orange 2001
5.In memory of the unknown artist: lino from the kitchen floor at Lawson NSW 1999
6.video still
7. Cambridge Carpet 2001
8.Float (Detail)
9. Detail from a painting
© Toni Warburton 2022
