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INDIA 101 (2010) (click here to view)

After returning home form travels in India, I constructed scanned collagesof my collected souvenirs in an effort to make sense of my experiences. India 101 is made up of daily empherma scavenged from the streets, temples, hotels and makerts of India, kept as souveniers along the way.

GETTING TO KNOW YOU (2010) (click here to view)

In order to make sense of a new place, I collected treasured ephemera from new friends. A small group of young women like me, in a small town. I asked to borrow some of their favourite personal possessions; trinkets collected from bedside tables, jewellery boxes and kitchen drawers. I then assembled these collected items and everyday objects they chose to surround themselves with in order to get to know them. The project aims to examine the main way we communicate in the modern world, by what we wear, buy and keep and the apparent significance of these possessions as cultural artefacts.

123 DAYS AWAY (2008) (click here to view)

On recent travels through Southeast Asia I collected objects from all the places I visited. These objects were collaged together to create a chronological representation of my journey. 123 Days Away serves as a material narrative of my travel experience. This work explores the concept of the souvenir (the travel mnemonic), and reconstructing memories once home.

123 DAYS AWAY was made in collaboration with Aaron Burton. (click here to view Aaron's work)

GLEANINGS (2007) (click here to view)

Gleanings is a collaboration with my friends and family. They offer me once important ephemera now resting by bedsides, dormant on shelves and engrained into their habitats. I assemble their possessions in order to communicate the transient materiality of human experience.

CUT & PASTE (2007)(click here to view)

The collages of Cut and Paste are constructed from materials collected from the everyday. These collages are scanned, creating a transition from object to reproducible photograph.

DRESSING SOPHIA (2006)(click here to view)

In Dressing Sophia patriarchal values of western religious ideology are subverted through the female archetype and indexical motifs within a layered media context.

COMMERCIAL WORKS

BEACHCOMBING (2009) (click here to view)

This year I moved to the beach. Beachcombing is part of the discovery of my new home.

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Email at adrianehayward@gmail.com

Phone on 0427690633 in Australia