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THE BLACK WEDDING DRESS
June 2011

"The Black Wedding Dress" was a cross-discipline collaboration with writer and performer, Michelle Murray, in June 2011 at the South Coast Regional Arts Centre. Michelle performed her poetic prose while I projected over 190 images onto an 8 foot charcoal drawing throughout the show. The project was self funded and was published in the August edition of Art Monthly Australia.

The Black Wedding Dress was written by Michelle Murray during her Australian Poetry Cafe poet residency at Cafelicious, Goolwa (on the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia) in 2010. Michelle then invited visual artists Nyorie Bungey, Michael Bryant, Annabelle Collett, Yvonne East and Barbary O’Brien to respond to the work in order to create a visual art exhibition and performance at the Alexandrina Council South Coast Regional Arts Centre, Goolwa in June 2011.

The Black Wedding Dress is a mythical poetic story of survival and transformation. The main protagonist, Ana, is a young Victorian-era woman who falls pregnant to her Aboriginal lover and escapes a violent marriage and persecution by following him deep into the desert.

Michelle Murray has published "The Black Wedding Dress" online. To see more, visit mythicalmichellemurray.wordpress.com

Download Art Monthly Article August 2011