Artwork: Honeysuckle Interference series 2019
Artist: Heather Burness
Medium: intaglio multiplate colour print
L-R: Honeysuckle Interference NE+SW (edition 1/3), Honeysuckle Interference SW+A (edition 1/3), Honeysuckle Interference A+NE (edition 1/2)
Dimensions: 3 @ 81.5 x 81 x 3cm
Acquisition: An acquisition of the ACT Legislative Assembly Art Advisory Committee, 2019
Asset no: OLA002601
About the Work
Honeysuckle Interference was made to celebrate the role the ACT played in the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Burness applied her characteristic technique of allowing the elements to mark a printer’s metal plate. She describes this as an ephemeral phenomena of ‘place’. For this project she left the steel plates face up on the concrete footings of the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station (HSK) communications dish site, each one on the primary intercardinal directions of Northwest, Southwest, Northeast and Southeast. The parabolic curves in her compositions refer to the formula used in the design and construction of the data-reflecting surfaces of space tracking communications dishes such as the HSK. Her in-field technique produced marks on the etching plate surface uncannily like the images of the surface of the moon.
About the Artist
Burness was awarded The Capital Arts Patrons’ Organisation (CAPO) Fellowship in 2011. She graduated Bachelor of Art (Visual), ANU Institute of the Arts, School of Art in 1993, and has was awarded a Master of Philosophy from the School of Art at the ANU in 2004. She has exhibited solo exhibitions nationally, and has been selected for group exhibitions in Australia and internationally, especially in exhibitions on the theme of the environment, for example Palimpsest (Mildura, 2004) and Ici, un bout du monde... Here, one end of the world, Le Cercle D'Art, Gentilly Biennale (Paris, 1996). She has won many awards in her field and her works are in the collections of Australian regional galleries, the State Library of New South Wales, the National Library of Australia and the National Gallery of Australia. She lectured at the ANU School of Art from 1996–2009; and 2011–2012.