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House of breath no.3 2014

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Accession No.
2022.130
Date Created
2014
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Contemporary Australian Art
Dimensions A
190 x 190cm
Media Category
Painting
Medium
Oil on linen
Place Created
Brisbane
Credit Line
The James C. Sourris AM Collection.
Gift of James C. Sourris AM through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2022. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Arryn Snowball developed his poetic ‘House of breath’ series from photographs of simple suspended paper shapes carried by the wind. Through his choice of title, House of breath no.3 2014 suggests the fluid movement of the body, and even the physical change of states involved in the acts of inhalation and exhalation as air is absorbed and expelled from the body. More subtle still, we might think beyond physical terms of air and vapour to qualities of life and spirit, such as vitality and being.

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© Arryn Snowball

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Exhibitions featuring this object

Ross Manning’s Spectra XIII 2017, installed for ’Courage and Beauty’, GOMA, September 2021 / The James C. Sourris AM Collection. Gift of James C. Sourris AM through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2023. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program / © Ross Manning / Photograph: J Ruckli, QAGOMA

‘Courage and Beauty’

Sep 2022 - Jun 2023

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