Artist talk: Peter Hennessey

Event Details

Date:

Friday, 13 March 2015

Time:

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Room:

UQ Art Museum

UQ Location:

James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre (St Lucia)

URL:

http://www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au/artist-talk-peter-hennessey

Event category(s):

Full Description:: Please join Peter Hennessey for an artist talk with exhibition curator Samantha Littley.

Trained as an architect, and with a background in new media, Peter Hennessey has established an international profile for his physically imposing, conceptually rigorous sculptures. He is inspired by the science of space exploration and comparable technological advances, and scours the Internet and other publicly available information to produce his work. The resulting sculptures are ‘re-enactments’ of objects – space probes, lunar rovers and GPS satellites – that allow people to encounter in three-dimensions what they would otherwise only see in reproduction, or on the Web. In recreating these structures, Hennessey explores the ‘space between images and experience’ and expounds on related social, political and economic imperatives. Peter will discuss some of his most significant sculptures, including My Humvee (Inversion therapy) 2008 from The University of Queensland Art Collection, as well as new work emerging from a residency at UQ’s Centre for Hypersonics.