SUSAN BANKS
SUSAN CHANCELLOR
PHIL PAGE

7 - 16 October 2022 @ CCAS MANUKA

Transmission is a conversation between three artists, Susan Banks, Susan Chancellor and Phil Page with none of the work attributed to a single artist. The process, which began during the most rigid lockdowns, is that we send works to each other and respond to each other's marks. As we work we are noticing how the first person to make the mark influences the outcome of the conversation even over several iterations of the process. We hope that you will see how exciting the process has been for us. We all worked in ways that we hadn't before and it opened up our practices to new influences.

Because Susan Chancellor lives three hours' drive away and because there were various lockdowns since we began this project two years ago, much of the work was sent by post. It was very exciting to get parcels in the mail with new puzzles to solve. We have included some of the physical evidence of postal transmission into the finished works. We needed to transmit the physical work because electronic mediation, whilst helpful, cannot replace communication by bodily generated marks and physical substrates. Concerns of scale, true colour, materiality are lost.

Image: Susan Banks, Susan Chancellor, Phil Page, Postcard, 2021, ink on Australia Post card, 10.5 x 14.5cm