Collected punctuation from Sally Rees’s Exegesis (in order), wire, super glue, clasp. 0.7x292 cm

Exhibitions: INFLIGHT, 2007, Hobart; Poimena Art Prize, Brink, 2009, Poimena Gallery, Launceston

Sally Rees’s Exegesis (Necklace) was constructed from single punctuation marks taken (in order) from a photocopy of a Hobart artists Post Graduate paper. The necklace is based on the idea that “in between space” is accentuated by punctuation; the collection of full stops, commas and dashes creates a disjointed discourse of the pause, of the verge of thought itself, not always understood, full of potential.

Philip Watkins, ‘Um Stuff - To Think Twice’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 41 July - Sept. 2007