Kate Just, The Skin of Hope
Daine Singer
2012
In The Skin of Hope, I presented a personal series of knitted sculptural works and photographs produced during an Australia Council Residency in Barcelona. While in Spain with my partner and child, I reclaimed my formative use of hand knitting and photographic media, to weave an account of the ways my non-biological child and I imprint and bond with each other at skin level. Through the exhibition, I frame skin as both a receptive and transmissive space, bearing witness to our most intimate moments. Elements of The Skin Of Hope were later exhibited in Louise Bourgeois and Australian Artists at Heide Museum of Modern Art in 2013.
-Kate Just