An exhibition with a connection to a lost loved one that contains objects reconfigured in new ways has opened at Dubbo.
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Bathurst-based artist Karen Golland’s ‘Spells for Lost Things’ opened on Saturday at Western Plains Cultural Centre.
Centre manager Andrew Glassop said the exhibition drew on objects collected by the artist and others.
“So the idea for this show began with a collection of things [Golland] got from her grandmother, when her grandmother passed away,” he said.
It uses collected pieces but unlike a museum, Golland re-works the object changing its meaning and the physical space it inhabits.
“...it’s very much about talking about her grandmother, but not in a very melancholy way,” Mr Glassop said.
“It’s quite fun and playful about how to make connections between people and how things that we collect are sort of spells of the past, almost, things that we want to say about ourselves and we almost give them a magic quality.”
Spells for Lost Things is open until June 24.
Faye Wheeler
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I have been a journalist for more than a decade and in that time I have been keeping Daily Liberal readers up to date about issues affecting them and what's happening in their community. Throughout my career I have covered a range of rounds and most recently I have been focusing on the business round.
