Drawing Breath

There’s a crack in everything (2022)

Commissioner:

Wollongong Art Gallery

Group exhibitions:

There’s a Crack in Everything, Wollongong Art Gallery, 2022

Collections:

Wollongong Art Gallery

Drawing Breath is an intimate portrait of a 15+ year friendship between Daniel Mudie Cunningham and Wart. For this project they set out to make a performance project from a poem Wart once wrote about a paper bag. The collaboration commenced with a playful photo series where the artists were looking for a shared performative language. As they set out to complete the process with a companion video work, significant life events interrupted their plans, inspiring a performance film where the artists reflect on friendship and grief. Intimate and moving, Daniel and Wart’s conversation is a life-affirming meditation on living with and breathing through, the cracks in everything.

Drawing Breath, 2022
HD single-channel video with sound, 16:9, 10:09 min
Performers: Daniel Mudie Cunningham & Wart
Camera & Editor: Vera Hong
Instrumentation: Wart
Sound: Phil Downing
Location: Katie Vajda 
Edition 3+1 AP

Series of three pigment prints
Camera: Katie Vajda
40 x 50 cm each
Edition of 5 + 2 AP

Drawing Breath, Wart and Daniel Mudie Cunningham
Install Shot
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