Cover Girl

Part of Objects in Space

23 May – 14 June, opens Thursday 22 May, 6 – 8pm

Artist Talk Thursday 12 June, 12.30 – 1.30pm

Part of the Next Wave Festival 2008.

What is the Cover Girl doing there? She provides an entry point into the content of the magazine; she gives a taste for what is to come. Books are often described using nouns normally associated with the human body; the spine, the dust jacket, thus, the cover girl could be called the orifice of the book. Do they all function in the same way? Like the clowns in a fairground, the cover girl always provides the same service: she invites us to practise our aim.

Alex Martinis Roe is a current candidate for a Masters of Fine Arts by Research from Monash University having been awarded the Silver Jubilee Scholarship. Alex has shown at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Conical Inc, Salzburg International Academy, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Spacement Gallery, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, TCB art inc, and Bus Gallery as well as Canberra Contemporary Art Space, care/of, Milan, Spectrum Project Space, Perth and Salzberg International Academy, Austria.