Sandra Conte
Sandra Conte is a Sunshine Coast based artist and curator.
She will be taking part in the "30 days hath September" show in 2010. For this show Sandra has aligned lyrics from the song "Try to Remember" to individual works underscoring the yearning for revisiting memories of the past. Sandra takes inspiration from the Australian Impressionists and the rationale for the exhibition through a reworking of her private photographs and memories. She draws on her maternal antecedents' history, journeying through her grandparents love story and the backdrop of her grandmother's girlhood at Kondalilla.
Try to Remember - "The Kondalilla Suite" Black and white archival/contemporary photographs on paper, 1-V11
Try to Remember when life was so tender,
That no one wept except the willow
Try to remember when life was so tender
That dreams were kept beside your pillow
Try to remember when life was so tender
That love was an ember about to billow
Try to remember, the kind of September
When grass was green and grain was yellow
Deep in December, our hearts should remember,
And follow
Try to remember the kind of September,
When life was slow and oh so mellow.
Maiden Hair 30x30cm
"Try to remember when life was so tender that dreams were kept beside your pillow"
Try to Remember 30x30cm
"Try to Remember the kind of September when life was slow and oh so mellow"
Sisters 30x30cm
"Try to remember the kind of September, when grass was green and grain was yellow"
Newly-Weds 30x30cm
"Try to remember the kind of September, when you were a tender and callow fellow"
Queen of the May 30x30cm
"Try to remember when life was so tender, that love was an ember about to billow"
Up the Garden Path 30x30cm
"Deep in December, our hearts should remember, and follow"
Grandmother Willow 30x30cm
"Try to remember the kind of September, when life was slow and oh so mellow"