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Joan Ross: Collector's Paradise

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Published 08 April 2021

Artist Joan Ross asks us to think about museums as places that keep, acquire, and classify objects. In her vast work of art, Collector's Paradise, a fluorescent moth with flapping wings unleashes chaos. Vitrines smash, specimens escape, and the museum tumbles down. In the wake of a flood that clears the rubble, Weereewa/Lake George emerges as drawn by the colonial artist Joseph Lycett in 1825. Gold balloons spelling $BOUNTY$ float and later burst in the bright blue sky.

Joan Ross: Collector's Paradise is a Know My Name project and was presented as part of the 2021 Enlighten Festival.

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