Armour for Flowers

Written By Tesha Malott

Katy B Plummer
Armour for Flowers
28 July - 2 August, 2019

Installation view, left to right. Circular rug of green, blue and pink picturing football helmets hung on a wall. Projection of 3 performers on a wall with warm lights behind. Suspended textiles and blue timber sculpture.

Katy Plummer, Armour for Flowers, installation view, 2019. Photography by Zan Wimberley.

Artist Statement

Armour For Flowers is a video installation project that considers the unstable, entropic relationship between a mystical and a prosaic encountering of the world, through the lens of spectator sports. Three women, dressed as flowers, first encounter each other in a viscerally embodied way. As their encounter is retold, it degrades and becomes encoded into a ritualised performance of their original encounter. At the end of the cycle, the memory of their embodied interaction has become purely decorative.

Video projection on free standing wall, of 3 performers dressed in yellow, pink and purple and football helmets on blue timber structures. A warm, speckled light glows from behind the wall.

Katy Plummer, BEAST TRINITY, HD video with stereo sound, 8’50”, dimensions variable, 2018. Photography by Zan Wimberley.

3 colourful patchwork tapestries in blue, pink, purple, yellow and green suspended over a structure of glittery, blue wood planks.

Katy Plummer, STRUCTURAL MYSTERIES, timber, glitter, dimensions variable, 2019. Photography by Zan Wimberley.

Close up of colourful patchwork textiles in blue, pink and green with magenta trim resting on a structure of wood planks in blue glitter.

Katy Plummer, (detail), STRUCTURAL MYSTERIES, timber, glitter, dimensions variable, 2019. Photography by Zan Wimberley.

Circular rug picturing 3 football helmets in pink, red, blue and purple on a green background hanging on a white wall, illuminated by a spotlight.

Katy Plummer, WITCH RUG 1-2-3, (SIGILS TO PROTECT YOUR LESS-THAN-INFINITE-PARTS, IN CASE OF PSYCHIC COLLISION), dyed jute, felt, dimensions variable, 2019. Photography by Zan Wimberley.

Circular rug hung with one half against the wall and half on the floor. The rug depicts three football helmets in pink, yellow, aqua.

Katy Plummer, WITCH RUG 1-2-3, (SIGILS TO PROTECT YOUR LESS-THAN-INFINITE-PARTS, IN CASE OF PSYCHIC COLLISION), dyed jute, felt, dimensions variable, 2019. Photography by Zan Wimberley.

2 colourful circular rugs depicting football helmets on 2 walls in the corner of the gallery. The left rug is hung half on the wall and half on the floor.

Katy Plummer, WITCH BLANKETS 1-2-3 (SIGILS TO STRUCTURE & CONTAIN ACCIDENTAL ENGAGEMENT WITH/ON THE MYTHIC PLANE), dyed linen, dyed silk velvet, dyed jute, dyed cotton, dimensions variable, 2019. Photography by Zan Wimberley.

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