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Murmur: An installation
Gesturing towards a cup and saucer placed beside each other, artist Rosslynd Piggott says she is keen “to show objects as they are not normally seen.” One notices the round, white circle at the centre of the saucer, which would usually be covered by the cup but is in this case revealed, beaming like a moon. This simple rearrangement draws attention to spatial, material and temporal relations and how they produce meaning – and it is a proposition carried through in Murmur, an installation by Piggott for the House of Ideas series at The Johnston Collection in Melbourne.
William Robert Johnston (1911–1986), an antique dealer who collected fine and decorative arts from the Georgian, Regency and Louis XV eras, bequeathed his collection and his house, Fairhall, to the people of Victoria with the expressed wish they be used for the public’s education and enjoyment. Johnston bought Fairhall, an 1860s house located in East Melbourne, in 1952 and remodelled it as a late-eighteenth-century Georgian-style townhouse with three apartments that he rented out while he lived in London. In 1972 he returned to Melbourne and established Kent Antiques in High Street, Armadale. Fairhall was his home until his death in 1986.
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