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2014

"TO CREATE his latest work — a 10m x 7m installation woven from strips of cardboard boxes — Ryan F. Kennedy went fossicking through Melbourne’s dumpsters.
He found that new apartment blocks were a happy hunting ground, with piles of boxes from Ikea, televisions, soft drinks and beer.

“It’s a portrait of the city,” Kennedy said.

“I feel there is magic in taking something that once was a discarded item and reconditioning it into something else.

...The US-born artist will talk about his work at Fehily Contemporary in Collingwood, where the work (which took two months to weave) will cover a wall and spill across the floor.
Kennedy wants people to walk and sit on the work, but he also enjoys the moment of confusion when visitors first encounter it in their path."



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2011




"...Kennedy, who studied textiles at FIT, works in the multi-media realm and his offerings in the show are portions of a larger whole — a film in progress entitled “Prometheus.” On his side of the gallery scenes from the film are projected on five screens and a large storyboard collage documenting the process is also displayed. Kennedy has produced a series of zines for the show as well — booklets of original art — featuring poetry, production stills from the filming process, drawing and collage, and is also showing costumes made for the film...
“I’m an artist who reads a lot of Scientific American,” explains Kennedy. “Darwin won truth 200 years ago when evolution won over religion. In time something will win over evolution. I find truth to be contextual based.”
“I’m sending flexibility to people’s thoughts about the future — it can be what we like it to be — a sense of hope and a lot of good things.”

By Annette Hinkle

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