Sunday, April 1, 2012

Meet the Artists - Penny Burnett

Currently sitting her BFA(Hons) at University of Tasmania (UTAS), Penny Burnett has been exhibiting her work for the last 10 years after studying fine arts in 1999.

Penny's work for the show:


‘There are questions you dreaded to have answered – your mother’s lactation, your father’s bovine lusts’
(Keneally 1971, p. 48)

Oil on masonite
60 x60 cm
© 2012 Penny Burnett

‘...they were abstracted, and it had been apparently so natural for them to turn into cows, or semi-cows, or rather a semi bull and a semi-heifer, that they hadn’t suffered a second’s dizziness or nausea.’ (Keneally 1971, p. 49)



Oil on masonite
60 x60 cm
© 2012 Penny Burnett


 
‘It is the duty of a good child to let his parents know the second they turn into animals’
(Keneally 1971, p. 49)

Oil on masonite
60 x60 cm
© 2012 Penny Burnett

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