Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, The Drag. Rover P6, 2-channel video, colour and sound, 28 minutes, 2015. Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.
Australian artists Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro have worked as a collaborative duo since 2001. They have lived and worked in Asia, Europe, North America and the Pacific. Their nomadic lifestyle, existing systems of transportation, packaging and portability, and the imaginary potential of what they find in these locations are key provocations for their art projects.
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro. 2016. Photograph by Harry Culy.
During their Te Whare Hēra residency Healy and Cordeiro created two bodies of work. Inspired by the expansive views of the harbour and wider landscape that the Te Whare Hēra studio afforded and by some of their favourite horror films, the first was The Wrong Landscape (2016), was a suite of meticulously hand painted CMYK dot scapes. The second series Daddy Danse Macabre (2016) celebrated the ‘awkwardness of aging cool’. In this work the artists decorated reproductions of human skulls in folk-gothic style, inscribing slang words dated with the year they first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary.
For more information on Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro visit their website