She changes the room around daily, trying to instill a familiarity into a new environment. She has brought treasures from her home and from her travels…jewellery, textiles and objects to give the space a sense of place, familiarity…things that hide and distract from her own displacement.

 The room displays a collection of mementos, shows a sense of luxury and a reflection on places, loves, journeys…arranged daily at whim…

She seems to live as if someone has her on surveillance and is watching what transpires.The changes and rearrangements make us think she is preparing for a visitor …and without her knowing, we get to see what lies inside.

The display in the room during her stay begins to reveal growing excess and abandonment…as her visit draws to a close  and she realises she must move on, she must leave before the party realy comes to an end.

 She personifies in many ways the ideal traveller, she has no real obvious goal, no final destination…just a suitcase of memories.

The Abandoned Boudoir is an art, craft and design exhibition set within a Hotel room. The exhibition seeks to utilise the works by Australian artists to illustrate a series of narratives, the primary one being the issue of voyeurism and privacy. Each hotel room is made over with this collection of Australian wares, diminidhing its own anonyminity and creating an individualised sense of place, open to visitation.

It is currently funded and supported by Asialink and has been shown in Executive Suite 415 at The Metropolitan Hotel Bangkok Thailand (November 2010), Studio 515 at The Opposite House Hotel in Beijing, China (August 2011) and Home Hotel Taipei, Taiwan (October 2011) and proposed for Delhi India in 2012.

For more project information please look at: www.theabandonedboudoir.com