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It’s online! 

“It represents a perfect moment in the afternoon – dappled sunlight and a cup of tea. It lasts the time it takes to boil the jug and make a cup of tea, and in that action sums up so much of what makes the Australian manner, encapsulating the quiet steadiness of his life as artist-in-residence.”

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Dave Perry, ‘Interior with Views’, 1976 Videotape by Dave Perry at the video editing workshop, Queensland Film & Drama Centre, Griffith University. March, 1976. 

Came across this video at QCA’s ‘A Time and a Place: Landscapes’ exhibition. It shows a treed landscape viewed through a glass window and television screen, fading in and out through images of a tea cup, kettle, and other kitchen items, set to a soundtrack of a person preparing (presumably) a cup of tea. It’s just everything that I love that Brisbane, and is done with with a deep respect.

“The title ‘Interior With Views’ was chosen quite deliberately to make a connection with painting and art history. There was something highly appealing to me about the way that those really very low-tech black-and-white video cameras rendered the landscape I saw through the windows every time I sat down to work. It was something like the effect of soft charcoal on white paper. But the “painterly concerns” are not just to do with the way the images look, they are also about content, which is a way of touching obliquely on politics. I have always been drawn to French painting because of the way it honours the everyday, the egalitarian without polemics, if you like.”

From the same interview, regarding a Pissarro exhibition at the AGNSW: “the best of Pissarro’s work reminded me of what I was trying to do at Griffith, that is to depict and to honour everyday life”.