About the artists
Monika Cvitanovic Zaper
Monika Cvitanovic Zaper is interested in the potential of freeform needlework to embody a feminist ethics of care, while coming to terms with personal memories and intergenerational textile-based knowledge. She believes it is through solitary contemplation of humble materials that she can bridge the space and time between herself and her late female ancestors, give voice to the unvoiced and encourage the sensory experience of the viewer. Monika explicitly works with reclaimed textiles, due to their prior (hi)stories and because of her concern for the ecological implications of art making.
Sophie Lane
In resisting the patriarchal association between vulnerability and weakness, Sophie Lane uses painting, drawing and writing practices as methods of healing, and to encourage vulnerable healing in others. By examining how care is held, received and communicated in daily life, she uses slow and introspective processes to locate care practice toward self and others as an inherent part of the everyday. Alongside familiar everyday objects, the work uses personal diaristic and letter writing to assert the feminist notion that the personal is political, identifies intimacy as strength, and embraces emotional labour as an essential element of the everyday.
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AD Space acknowledges and pays respect to the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which AD Space is built, operates and creates. AD Space is a student run exhibition space at UNSW Art & Design. Managed by Arc @ UNSW limited in partnership with UNSW Art & Design faculty.
Image: courtesy the artist
