Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley

Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, *SCUM Tapes screened on Brion Vega Glass Cube, 1968*, 1996, 22 minutes, Super VHS transferred to digital format,
Image courtesy of the artists.

Bio

The artistic partnership of Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley was established in 1985 and engages with legacies of modernism that include a wide range of references from psychoanalysis to film, as well as minimal, conceptual and pop art. Burchill (b.1955) was born in Narrm/Melbourne and McCamley (b.1957) was Born in Meanjin/Brisbane. Both began making Super-8 shorts and photographic work together in the early 1980s. Their work is born out of a post-modern context, their opaque referentiality intertwines filmic and art-historical references. Rooted in feminist, Lesbian, and political art practices, their work frequently incorporates texts from Gertrude Stein, Emily Dickinson, Valerie Solanas, and Simone Weil. Burchill and McCamley have exhibited widely around Australia since they began making together in the 1980s, having shown at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne; among many others. They have been included in recent major group exhibitions such as Unfinished Business, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2017) and Tarrawarra Biennial: Endless Circulation, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville (2016).