Reconsidering the gender and scopic limits of traditional art forms : reclaiming the space of a woman's identity

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The content and form of contemporary concepts of identity in Australia originate in Australia's colonial history in which European structure of thinking and imaging were imposed on the colony. These structures were masculine and scopic in form and hence inhibited identities and practices, which did not conform to these structures. The project primarily interrogates and deconstructs the masculine and scopic structures, which give legitimacy to both colonial practice and to painting and photographic media as the dominant visual representation of this practice. It is the theme of this project that the deconstruction is primarily a matter of considering issues of spatiality associated with scopic regimes. My intent has been to imagine and make a new type of space, which does not centre the subject in dominant masculine and scopic terms. The development of such a new type of space aims to create a new stage on which other roles of identity can be imagined. More importantly it provides the a

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