D I S I N T E G R A T I O N opening 26th July 2016

All are welcome for opening drinks to view my latest body of work Disintegration at Kudos Gallery.

27 July - 8 August 2016 Opening 26 July 2016, 5 - 7pm

Kudos Gallery 6 Napier St Paddington NSW 2021 Gallery hours: 11am-6pm Wed to Fri, 11am-4pm Sat

In photographing the ailing health and dementia of the her great godfather Peter MacDonald Tow, Kate Farquharson provides unobtrusive glimpses into a crumbling life. Disintegration investigates the imprints the human body leaves on its environment and upon other’s memories. It seeks to represent not only the ailing of the human body, but the dissolution of the mind. It is a lament to the collapse of great minds, the devastation of dementia and is an avenue of quiet contemplation. Peter was a child of the Great Depression and grew up in poverty in South London. Through obtaining scholarships he was able to study Medicine at Cambridge University and specialised in Psychiatry. In 1955 his book Personality Changes Following Frontal Leucotomy was published. Peter travelled between England and Australia until the 1970s, when he settled in the suburb of Red Hill, Canberra.