Ayesha Green (of HAPORI) + Leafa Wilson
opening at OLGA
6 - 10 January 2016
Finding Meaning in Home and Away is a visual analysis of personal responses, each of the artists' love of the Australian soap, Home And Away and their works are a way to find some meaning in the lives and ethos of an entirely constructed and eurocentric beach town. How can such a place be so attractive and addictive to each of the artists? Where does this type of activity arise from?
'hold me in your arms
don't let me go
I want to stay forever.
closer each day
Home and Away'
words by Leafa Wilson
Blood and Sand
In so many ways, HOME AND AWAY represents distance; a distance between my version of surf, sun and sand and this filmic always pretty and palagi place called Summer Bay.
(I could call it Samoa Bay *note to self*).
TBH I actually loathed the soapie when the kids would watch it. But I happened to catch the bits where Charlie (the woman police officer) starting going out with the local thuggish king pin, Darryl Braxton – better known as Brax.
It was his character that made me want to watch it, because before then, I’d only ever noticed prissy, very beautiful and skinny people. Brax was a bit more savage, so that part of me related immediately to him.
When he left the show, it really sucked. But then, it’s so easy to get sucked back in to the other stories that are pretty average.
I really love the scenery of Summer Bay, I sometimes enjoy the scenery if the story is lame and the music gets too ‘matchy-matchy’ with the events.
It’s such a good (or bad) way to really get out-of-it. It’s art of another form.
Leafa Wilson
January 2016
lyrics from Home and Away theme song.
'hold me in your arms
don't let me go
I want to stay forever.
closer each day
Home and Away'
words by Leafa Wilson
Blood and Sand
In so many ways, HOME AND AWAY represents distance; a distance between my version of surf, sun and sand and this filmic always pretty and palagi place called Summer Bay.
(I could call it Samoa Bay *note to self*).
TBH I actually loathed the soapie when the kids would watch it. But I happened to catch the bits where Charlie (the woman police officer) starting going out with the local thuggish king pin, Darryl Braxton – better known as Brax.
It was his character that made me want to watch it, because before then, I’d only ever noticed prissy, very beautiful and skinny people. Brax was a bit more savage, so that part of me related immediately to him.
When he left the show, it really sucked. But then, it’s so easy to get sucked back in to the other stories that are pretty average.
I really love the scenery of Summer Bay, I sometimes enjoy the scenery if the story is lame and the music gets too ‘matchy-matchy’ with the events.
It’s such a good (or bad) way to really get out-of-it. It’s art of another form.
Leafa Wilson
January 2016
lyrics from Home and Away theme song.