“A Dreaded Sunny Day”
Dianne Peacock
11 Feb → 26 Feb 2005

Dye-line printing is an almost obsolete technology for reproducing architectural drawings. Shadows cast by drafted ink are fixed onto photosensitive paper. Unstable in light, the prints should be stored in darkness, lest they fade. My work explores latent tonal qualities of this medium.

While contemporary lifestyle architecture presents as spacious and light filled, A Dreaded Sunny Day accommodates an un-Australian desire to withdraw into the dark in the middle of the day. The architectural shadow and the by-products of its production are the subjects of this installation.

It is titled after a line in a song by The Smiths.

Dianne Peacock uses basic tools of architectural representation to transform by-products of her architectural projects (ideas, forms, questions, desires) into installations and printed works. She publishes Sub Plot Zine. Dye-line printing has been a sustained project since 2001.

This project is supported by the City of Melbourne 2005 Arts Grant Program.