Taryn Blight

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Masked by Time

Exhibited in: The Alternative Archive – Only Hospital For Miles Miles exhibition at the Lake Grace Regional Artspace

Women are Like Teabags…

Media/Materials: teabags, tulle, silk thread

Dimensions: 670mm x 850mm

Artist statement:

Women have played a very significant role in the Australian Inland Mission Hospital, from the doctor to the cleaners. Each role was crucial and each would have presented some challenges. Whether it was trying to prepare a meal while the stove was being used to sterilise instruments, operating on patients with limited equipment or caring for the patients, the staff adapted and coped with admirable strength of character. They were all amazing women.

Photograph: Rebecca Clark

Masked by Time

Media/Materials: wire, cotton, cotton thread, tulle

Dimensions: Variable

Artist statement:

Time masks many things, the past as well as the future. We look at the AIM Hospital and find it hard to imagine how they coped with such limited facilities. We look at the Hospital now and can’t picture how it was in the past. But, what would the people of the past have thought of the present? They would never have been able to envisage the facilities and equipment we have. The present hides so many things, the past and the future.

Photograph: Rebecca Clark