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Los Angeles based Bonnie Lane returns to her hometown of Melbourne for a new solo exhibition at Anna Pappas Gallery in March 2014.
This exhibition will follow on from the success of Lane’s 2012 solo exhibition Make Believe (Anna Pappas Gallery). The key work from this exhibition was a kaleidoscopic video that continually morphed between distinguishable forms of young girls dancing to abstract patterns formed by the girl’s costumes. Created over several artist residencies in America, the video explores the subjected roles of childhood and adulthood and the tumultuous transition between the two.This mesmerising video was immensely popular and as such was chosen for the curated exhibition Art-Athina Contemporaries: Paradise Lost (Art-Athina Contemporary Art Fair, Athens, Greece, 2013) and was a finalist in the prestigious Guirguis New Art Prize (Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, 2013)and is currently on an international tour in Asialink's Vertigo exhibition, curated by Claire Anna Watson.
Lane’s newest exhibition Monsters will be a series of video sculptures that splice together segments of the human body to form bizarre creatures. These monstrous beings, with their fragmented and contorted flesh, are manifestations of the darker parts of our subconscious, our private desires and most secret thoughts.
From their starting point as simple paper collages, Lane has developed these Monsters into almost living creatures, video sculptures that will make the audience overly aware of their own body as they navigate the exhibition and interact with these strange yet seductive beings.
Bonnie Lane is a video installation artist born in Melbourne, Australia in 1986. She is the recipient of grants, awards and scholarships from the Australia Council for the Arts, The National Association for the Visual Arts and the City of Melbourne. She has participated in artist-in-residence programs in Los Angeles, Utah, Vermont, New Mexico, Norway, Portugal, and Seoul.
Her video installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions: Make Believe at Anna Pappas Gallery including a selection of works at the Melbourne Art Fair (2012), Present Memory at Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts (2012), Sleepless at Art Currents Institute, New York City (2012), and Into the Dark, an elaborate solo video installation exhibition spanning each of BUS Projects’ 5 basement gallery spaces (2011). Along with recent group exhibitions at: the Seoul Museum of Art Nanji Gallery, Art-Athina (Athens, Greece), Atelier 35 (Bucharest, Romania), 91mq Project Space (Berlin),The Santa Fe International New Media Festival, YouYou Gallery (China), Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center (NYC), The New York Electronic Arts Festival, Folken Space (Stavanger, Norway), Out in the Sticks Cultural Centre (Ontario), Kudos Gallery (Sydney), NEXT art fair (Chicago, Anna Pappas Gallery), Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Anna Pappas Gallery, Michael Koro Galleries, and The Substation in Melbourne.
Bonnie holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts (2007) and a first-class Honours Degree from Monash University (2010). Bonnie Lane is represented by Anna Pappas Gallery and currently lives and works in Melbourne and Los Angeles.
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