Gallery

Inquiry into personal experiencing

(2000-2002)

The images in this room are wonderfully illustrative of a personal journey undertaken by Kay Thorburn, while completing our Graduate Diploma programme. Kay has graciously provided context statements to accompany each work, which were at the time, the only artwork she had ever done. “I sort of discovered that I could draw and make other forms of representation since starting [at] MIECAT.”

At the time Kay used the largest size of paper available (55x70cm) yet now wishes they were a lot larger. Since working on this series she has “discovered” a larger format she feels is more suited to her “stretched figures.”

All artwork is pastel on paper and all photos were taken by Kay herself.

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Core 1, Apr-May 2000

Essence of Experiencing My first ever drawing, maybe I can draw	Behind & Beyond Experiencing entry into a workshop space	Resistance A bodily experience	Lift Allowing what is coming, being in the partly known	Impact The old walls hold many things, I create the walls	Being with others Experiencing as another experiences	The energy of ground Being companioned in the world of others	A leap of faith The 6th cycle of inquiry into ongoing experiencing	Emerging The dance of the red silk	Seen & Not seen Feelings of the deepest sense of loss	Protection & belonging Places of long ago	Voice What is it that causes such silence?	Awake Alice comes out of wonderland: a final reflection

Core 2, Jun 2000

Eye of the Goanna Dreaming while awake, my relationship with revelation	Silent voice Amplification of my distress	Fading away My distress in an experience of my frozen voice

Core 3, Jul-Aug 2000

Forzen moment Expressed embodiment of a joint meaning for silence found in moving with the other	Dilemma My embodied tension	Where am I? A representation from an intersubjective response	Intersubjectivity A personal experience	Joining the flow Presence: an attempt at depiction	Searching the emptiness of my sound That which I seek I cannot find	Lost in the foliage Discovery of unknown pattern of self protection	Newspaper wrappings Letting go of a known self protection, end of many cycles of inquiry, I am seen this is me. Performance essence.	Black angels The things the trees hold

Core 4, Oct 2000 - Jan 2001

Broom dancing Sawdust and sound, discovery of joy	Hold it open Risking moving into that which is new	Symbol of my anger Tree, exploding within, contained and dying	Grief What resides in the ordinary	Exposed In the ordinary, an extreme experience	Lizard on a rock Risking vulnerability

Core 5, Early 2001

Difference The playground, creating distance	Dancers in the Dark Do I still dance only in the dark?	Held in connection Trying out the ‘staying with’ others	First meeting of blood A long time answer	Ants: pictures on the ground Friends and long ago teachers	Shades of light Snakes, a recurring theme	Lost in the space Fears in intimacy	Fire within Expression and it’s possibilities	The weight of secrets Old pictures on the wall	Forwards and Backwards A known pattern of being

Core 6, Mid 2001

Companioning Journeys of trust	Messages of red thread Explorations into emotional being	Skeletal memories Red threads, bandaids, wounds of the bones

Core 7, Late 2001

New colours Shifting being	Childhood Companion He could jump the fence!

Core 8, Early 2002

I wonder at what is me A self reflection