COX GALLERY: Unmoored: Laura Canty
Laura Canty, on her exhibition ‘Unmoored’.
Collage is a creative process which has consumed me for many years. During the age of AI, rapid image production and digital manipulation, analogue collage represents an adherence to the handmade. It offers scope for technical experimentation, and an interpretive openness which excites me as an artist.
As I arrange pieces of a collage, I am drawn to both the directness and the pliability of the medium. Selecting ‘everyday’ materials such as paper or fabric provides a creative freedom often restricted with more expensive materials. Reclaimed or handmade items are easily arranged, rearranged, potentially discarded, reintroduced, multiplied, altered, layered or erased; all before being secured to a surface.
[Below left: Untitled 3, 2022 | Below right: Untitled 11, 2023]
William Burroughs
Cut-ups make explicit a psychosensory process that is going on all the time anyway.
Combining materials which have been unmoored from their original context allows a semiotic interplay to come into being. An image communicates an altered language determined by its surroundings and how it is treated. The artist and viewer are free to draw on their own personal associations to create meaning.
When: Showing from 9 November 2026 to 17 December 2026, with the gallery open 9am-5pm
Where: The COX Gallery is located at 8 Thesiger Court, Deakin, 2600
