Not Under My Roof Sean Cordeiro And Claire Healy

Optimism exhibition at gallery of modern art queensland art gallery brisbane.

Not under my roof sean cordeiro and claire healy.

Creative collaboration artists claire healy and sean cordeiro. Sean cordeiro claire healy not under my roof 2009 sean cordeiro claire healy drunken clarity 2011 life span was first shown as part of an australian satellite exhibition during the 2009 venice biennale where it upstaged our official entries. From an email interview between hou hanru and claire healy and sean cordeiro july 2012. Over the past decade they have travelled incessantly undertaken.

12 09 19 tucked away on a quiet street in blackheath is one of australia s leading artist duos claire healy and sean cordeiro. Claire healy and sean cordeiro may be the first australian artists to take full advantage of the new globalised art world. Combining a playful sense of humour and an engagement with art historical precedents their work is characterised by the deconstruction and reinvention of found objects and everyday items such as vhs tapes bricks of lego ikea furniture and household items into large scale installations sculptures and site specific. 82 5 x 88 2cm edition of 10.

Claire healy and sean cordeiro both completed a master of fine arts. Home invasion works by claire healy sean cordeiro. Like poets at a suburban barbecue the artists stand a little apart from everybody else. Flatpack past times and an old queensland farmhouse in not under my roof.

In not under my roof 2008 a house was separated from its footings and sliced to retrieve the floor which was then hung on the gallery wall as part of the contemporary australia. Unsw art design graduates claire healy and sean cordeiro are internationally renowned practitioners known for their thought provoking installations that explore the way modern human beings live including the mistakes we make and the things we take for granted. Where they find beauty and interest they also find points of critique and. Claire healy and sean cordeiro are not the first couple to be dismayed by the exorbitant cost of sydney real estate.

Claire healy and sean cordeiro elevate and reclaim the mundane. Claire healy and sean cordeiro have been working together since 2001.