top of page

Create Your First Project

Start adding your projects to your portfolio. Click on "Manage Projects" to get started

Emptiness

Date

1997

Gallery

Graduate Show, Victorian College of Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia

Awarded

Lavazza George Gallery 12-month studio residency and solo exhibition

In 1996, I invited numerous people - including prominent Australian figures in the arts, sciences, community and sports, to reflect on and write down what they believed Emptiness to be. Eighty-six entries were included in a limited edition book.

These were exhibited on a plinth within a castle facade that was constructed from transparent bricks made from A4 polypropylene copies of the entries.

My entry written a quarter of a century ago expresses a notion that I is still exploring today: that of ones' own capacity to discover potential beyond the concepts of that which usually binds us.

Other entries include:
Prof. Sir Gustav Nossal, AC, CBE; Shane Gould OBE; Prof. Kevin Hart, theologian, poet; Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Tibetan lama; Dr Charles Green, artist, academic; Isabella, 6 year old friend.

I live and work on the unceded lands of the peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation and pay my respects to their elders, past present and emerging. 

© 2022 Michelle Tonkin.

  • Instagram
bottom of page