‘Kasia and Rosalie’ was first exhibited in the exhibition ‘Don’t Tell Nanna…’, 2010.
Exhibition review by Annalice Creighton writes in das Superpaper:
“In the age of post-post-feminism it can be easy to overlook the value of such spaces, created by a community of women artists, generating work that discusses femininity, gender stereotypes and the lineage of the domestic realm which we inherit and continue to build upon. Don’t Tell Nanna gauges this temporary myopia, it pulls out the contents of the glory box and puts them on trial.
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In dialogue with Walkerden’s Kasia and Rosalie’s revolt […] these scenes provoke a consideration of the psychological and narrative forms embedded in site. […] Walkerden’s video, filmed at Trial Bay Gaol, uses the abandoned site as a set for a compelling fictional narrative about entrapment.
In the quiet hours of a Thursday afternoon Don’t Tell Nanna has successfully transported me into a world of charming, disturbed domesticity, held together by a captivating curatorial framework that is almost an artwork in itself.”
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Katie Lees performed with Nicola Walkerden in the moving image artwork ‘Kasia and Rosalie’, 2010. Katie and Nicola are cousins, best mates and creative collaborators in various forms since childhood, helping nurture each others’ creativity, assisting on each others’ projects, and supporting each other to become artists.
Filming thanks to sisters Annika and Emily.
Trial Bay, Arakoon is on Dunghutti country. Katie and Nicola have a deep personal connection to Thunggutti/Dunghutti country of the Macleay region. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the First Peoples and Nations and the Traditional Owners and Custodians of Thunggutti/Dunghutti country, we pay our deep respects and thanks to Indigenous Elders past, present and emerging. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.
Learn more about country at the Kempsey Local Aboriginal Land Council and the NSW Aboriginal Land Council.
Katie Lees 