Primary Artist

Heather Burness (1956–)

Title

0700-0900 Anomalies and Adjustments #2.

Date made

2004

Place made

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia View on map Close map

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching, printed in colour inks, from multiple plates

Matrix size

138.0 cm x 72.0 cm (plate mark)

Support

paper

State

published state

Production notes

'I gazed for 28 days'

I have embarked upon 'collecting expeditions' to costal sites, during which I 'captured' marks from ocean wave movement on print matrices - collecting, naming, pressing, labelling, ordering, and numbering them. I have been interested in the utilisation of systems to alleviate our sense of 'throwness' to the world - systems which do not necessarily lead to meaning, understanding, coherence or comfortable readability. Logic is not necessary for compatibility within experience. The edge is a place affected by complexity, where essentialist of 'either/or' become irrelevant and the uncertainty of continual adjustments and movement is felt and remembered. Through the application of systems, my prints become a place where the subjective experience of 'being there' meets the tabulated, calculated experience of predicted probabilities. It is a constantly adjusting system.

[Heather Burness, in 'Present tense', 2005]

Collection

Private collection

Creators

Burness, Heather. | (1956–) Australian | Female | artist

Last Updated

11 Aug 2025