Primary Artist

Heather Burness (1956–)

Title

0700-0900 Anomalies and Adjustments #2.

Date made

2004

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Matrix size

138.0 cm x 72.0 cm (plate mark)

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]

Creators

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

Last Updated

11 Aug 2025