• Bio
    • Veiled Pleasures (2022)
    • Ideas of Home (2019)
    • Bruised Food: Art Action and Ecology in Asia - A Living Laboratory (2019)
    • Secret Interiors (2018)
    • Hyphenated (2018)
    • Where Here is Elsewhere (2016)
    • The Pleasures and Dilemmas of Inheritance (2016)
    • Shimmering Spaces II (2013)
    • Shimmering Spaces III (2013)
    • 2013 Castlemaine State Festival - Biennial Periscope (2013)
    • Here with You (2011)
    • Wall Works and Other Projects (2010)
    • Something in the Air (2010)
    • Secret Files from the Working Men's College (2010)
    • Plays and Wins: the time it takes (2009)
    • Possible Worlds (2007)
    • Little Thoughts Secret Pictures (2007)
    • Neutral Readings (2002)
    • Memory and Slowness (1998)
    • Masala Mix: Opening up the Anglo - Indian Tiffin (2019)
    • The Billboard Project (2018)
    • Holding Hands (2018)
    • The Ascension (2018)
    • A Golden Circle and Graphite Orb (2016 - 2018)
    • How much does your history weigh? ...(2016)
    • Letting things be what they are (2016)
    • Between Dreaming and Dying (2015)
    • Closeness and Distance (2015)
    • Bespoke (2013)
    • P.O.S.H. (2013)
    • Elsewhere (2013)
    • Reading from Both Side (2013)
    • A.E.I.O.U. (2013)
    • Rumour (2013)
    • Standard English (2013)
    • Somersault (2013)
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    • The Colonial Garden (2010)
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Rhett D'Costa

  • Bio
  • Exhibitions
    • Veiled Pleasures (2022)
    • Ideas of Home (2019)
    • Bruised Food: Art Action and Ecology in Asia - A Living Laboratory (2019)
    • Secret Interiors (2018)
    • Hyphenated (2018)
    • Where Here is Elsewhere (2016)
    • The Pleasures and Dilemmas of Inheritance (2016)
    • Shimmering Spaces II (2013)
    • Shimmering Spaces III (2013)
    • 2013 Castlemaine State Festival - Biennial Periscope (2013)
    • Here with You (2011)
    • Wall Works and Other Projects (2010)
    • Something in the Air (2010)
    • Secret Files from the Working Men's College (2010)
    • Plays and Wins: the time it takes (2009)
    • Possible Worlds (2007)
    • Little Thoughts Secret Pictures (2007)
    • Neutral Readings (2002)
    • Memory and Slowness (1998)
  • Projects
    • Masala Mix: Opening up the Anglo - Indian Tiffin (2019)
    • The Billboard Project (2018)
    • Holding Hands (2018)
    • The Ascension (2018)
    • A Golden Circle and Graphite Orb (2016 - 2018)
    • How much does your history weigh? ...(2016)
    • Letting things be what they are (2016)
    • Between Dreaming and Dying (2015)
    • Closeness and Distance (2015)
    • Bespoke (2013)
    • P.O.S.H. (2013)
    • Elsewhere (2013)
    • Reading from Both Side (2013)
    • A.E.I.O.U. (2013)
    • Rumour (2013)
    • Standard English (2013)
    • Somersault (2013)
    • Trade (2013)
    • Eat! My Son (2013)
    • Curtain (2012)
    • Brad (2010)
    • The Colonial Garden (2010)
    • Archipelago (2009-2010)
  • Paintings
    • 2025
    • 2021 - 2024 (shaped paintings)
    • 2020 - 2022
    • 2018 - 2019
    • 2010 - 2017
    • 2006 - 2009
    • 2000 - 2005
    • 1996 - 1999
    • 1991 - 1995
    • 1987 - 1990
    • 1985 - 1986
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    • Plays and Wins
    • Possible Worlds
  • PhD
    • Shimmering Spaces: Art and Anglo Indian Experiences
  • contact

Curtain (2012)

When I started this project I was thinking about the division of a space, a boarder, which created some form of separation. The curtain marks a threshold; a liminal point between one space and another. I wanted the division of this space to be marked by something permeable. It seemed important to me that the curtain be a point of celebration, an open invitation to cross back and forth across a boarder. It had to allow the body to be visible as it moved between the folds.

I worked with my mum to produce this artwork. I had previously collaborated with her on other art projects (she once knitted the patterns from my paintings into blankets so I could use them on cold nights). I wanted her to decide on the colour relationships for the curtain. I encouraged her to recall the beautiful colours in the saris she would sometimes wear in India and to draw on these remembered experiences when combining colours for the curtain. The result is a beautiful abstraction; a ‘painting’ which floats lightly, recalling the spaces and colours of our remembered India. Allowing ‘us’ to move back and forth, between now and then.

View fullsize   Curtain     Silk   dimensions variable   photographic documentation  – installed in a domestic setting, Fryerstown, Victoria.   2012
View fullsize   Curtain     Silk   dimensions variable   photographic documentation  – installed in a domestic setting, Fryerstown, Victoria.   2012
View fullsize   Curtain     Silk   dimensions variable   photographic documentation  – installed in a domestic setting, Fryerstown, Victoria.   2012
View fullsize   Curtain     Silk   dimensions variable   photographic documentation  – installed in a domestic setting, Fryerstown, Victoria.   2012
View fullsize   Curtain     Silk   dimensions variable   photographic documentation  – installed in a domestic setting, Fryerstown, Victoria.   2012
View fullsize   Curtain     Silk   dimensions variable   photographic documentation  – installed in a domestic setting, Fryerstown, Victoria.   2012
View fullsize   Curtain     Silk   dimensions variable   photographic documentation  – installed in a domestic setting, Fryerstown, Victoria.   2012
View fullsize   Curtain     Silk   dimensions variable   photographic documentation  – installed in a domestic setting, Fryerstown, Victoria.   2012
View fullsize   Curtain     Silk   dimensions variable   photographic documentation  – installed in a domestic setting, Fryerstown, Victoria.   2012
View fullsize   Curtain     Silk   dimensions variable   photographic documentation  – installed in a domestic setting, Fryerstown, Victoria.   2012
View fullsize   Curtain     Silk   dimensions variable   photographic documentation  – installed in a domestic setting, Fryerstown, Victoria.   2012
View fullsize   Curtain     Silk   dimensions variable   photographic documentation  – installed in a domestic setting, Fryerstown, Victoria.   2012
View fullsize   Curtain     Silk   dimensions variable   photographic documentation  – installed in a domestic setting, Fryerstown, Victoria.   2012
View fullsize   Curtain (Detail)    Silk   dimensions variable   photographic documentation  – installed in a domestic setting, Fryerstown, Victoria.   2012
View fullsize   Curtain   (Detail)   Silk   dimensions variable   photographic documentation  – installed in a domestic setting, Fryerstown, Victoria.   2012
View fullsize   Curtain   (Installation view)   Silk   dimensions variable   photographic documentation  –  Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Churchill Campus Gippsland  2012
View fullsize   Curtain   (Installation view)   Silk   dimensions variable   photographic documentation  –  Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Churchill Campus Gippsland
View fullsize   Curtain   (Installation view)   Silk   dimensions variable   photographic documentation  –  RMIT School of Art Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne Campus

Curtain (2012), [silk; dimensions variable], photographic documentation – installed in a domestic setting, Fryerstown, Victoria.

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