Artist Statement
I grew up in a tight knit world of fabulous women; my movie star mother
and my rock star older sisters, with my younger brothers supporting adventure.
Our large immigrant Irish family was documented by my father on Super 8s and slides,
screened regularly at gala premieres in our lounge room. I thought everyone
grew up watching themselves projected on white sheets. And I thought women ran
the world.
I found out as girls do that the world wasn’t so kind while
traipsing from film school to art school, from cinema to gallery, gathering ideals
and optimisms that only made sense when combined. I work with still images,
moving images, word and projections, mixing them like oil and water. Moments of
motion depicting feminisms, human rights, concepts of time and breaths of
memory. I love how moving images, both cine and digital, talk to each other
through folds in time. I love how memory has its own heartbeat, a different
rhythm for each of us, but recognisable to all of us. Heritage footage allow
flutters of time that I can almost touch. My work sparks from cinematic
stylings that speak of heart ease and when combined with art defy word, existing only in emotion.
- Erin M McCuskey, March 2020
Civic Participation
Civic Queen
Hello Foto
Random Number Generator
Large As Life
Luxville Episode 6
Twirl de Lux
Luxville the Story so Far
Do Not Go Gentle
Arising
Yayas House
Luxville Prologue
Women of Eureka
Irresistible Frocks
Ta Phin
MIFFtales
Normal
Where U Going
Sanctuary
Proceed With Caution
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Erin M McCuskey, 2020.
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