Artists:
Robert Baines
Ros Bandt
Clare Belfrage
Bronwyn Goss
Jacqui Gropp
Adrian Jones
Janie Matthews
Anne Neil
Susan Purdy
Sue Saxon
Liz Williamson
Artist's Statement
tears (terz) [L. lacrimae; Gr.dakryal the watery secretion of the lacrimal glands which serves to moisten the conjunctiva; the secretion is slightly alkaline and saline.
Dorlands Illustrated Medical Dictionary, Edition 28
lachrymatory (‘lækrim?t?ri), a. and sb. [ad.L. type *lacrimatorius, f. lacrimare: see LACHRYMATION.]
B. sb.
1. A vase intended to hold tears; applied by archaeologists, with doubtful correctness, to those small phials of glass, alabaster, etc., which are found in ancient Roman tombs.
1658 SIR T.BROWNE Hydriot. 23 No?Lachrymatories, or TearBottles attended these rural Urnes. a 1711 KFN Hymnoth. Poet. Wks. 1721 111. 72 Magdalen’s Tears?her Lachrymatory filVd. 1807 G. CHALMERS Caledonia I.I.iv. 147 There have been dug up here .. a Roman lachrymatory, and also a pig of lead. 1842 CARLYLE in Mem. Ld. Tennyson (1897) 1. 214 There is in me what would fill whole Lachrymatories, as 1 read.
2. humorously. A pocket? handkerchief.
1825 New Monthly Mag. X111. 208 Women will he stationed in the pit with white cambric lachrymatories, to exchange for those which have become saturated with the tender tears of sympathy. 1844 Fraser’s Mag. XXX. 331/1 Our lachrymals were unhumected, our lachrymatories never called into requisition.
The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition
the tears I cried for you Glass, cork,
wax, tears, aluminium brackets 20 x 2
detail
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Individual Exhibitions
1997 your name, Inaugural Exhibition, Contemporary Program, The Jewish Museum, Melbourne
1994 Ultima, Rom Gallery, Sydney
1993 Malom To, Torok Furdo - Turkish Bathhouse in collaboration with Heimo Wallner, Budapest, Hungary
Foyalmot Galeria - The Danube Water-meter Gallery in collaboration with Sandy Saxon, Budapest, Hungary
Selected Group Exhibitions
1998 Edifying Sappho & Socrates 1998 Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, Darlinghurst Community Centre
1997 Neshamah - Eventspace, The Performance Space, Sydney
1996 Art & Remembrance - Jewish Museum, Melbourne
Artists for Habitat - Kenneth Winslow, New York
Nostalgic - Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Crossing Territories, Jewish Arts Festival, Powerhouse Museum
1994, Moet et Chandon Travelling Exhibition, all State galleries
Selected publications
1998 Wrestling with difficult issues, Anna Epstein, Art and the Spirit, vol 18, no 1, Artlink
1998 Changing Cultures and Glittering Prizes, Joanna Mendelssohn, Emerging Artists, vol 17, no 4, Artlink
1995 Sue Saxon: Ultima, Jay Johnston, Eyeline, Winter