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Zombie - Georgie Pollard

“This combination of life and death in a single image is rendered literal with Georgina Pollard’s painting, Zombie which was made by wrapping cooked rice in muslin and placing it in the leaf fall at the base of a tree in the bush. The rice becomes a medium for bacterial culture, fungus and other microorganisms, which quickly grow and cover the surface of the cloth. The resulting decomposition was then stretched and the painting produced as the residual forms and colouration of the teaming life that produced it. While the painting is itself produced by the processes of decay, it is also literally a living artwork. At the same time, the title of the work and its clear extension of the logic of Andy Warhol’s Factory into the natural world suggest that our own culture proceeds by a similar dynamic.”

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Eveleigh, New South Wales