SORRY Sydney (2008)

I first began collecting newspaper apologies after finishing my dissertation the topic of pain and peoples responses to it in 1999. Over the years, as I followed the media spectacle of public apologies I gathering images and quotes from the mouths of CEOs, politicians, sports stars and others. Some of these apologies are of major historical significance while many are salacious in nature and of little public consequence. My work aims to distinguish what was important from what was not in this blur of fleeting media moments.

 In 2005, I presented SORRY as a series of prints at MacMaster Museum of Art (Hamilton, ON) in a billboard style installation then again at Saint Mary's University Art Gallery (Halifax, NS) as larger prints bracketed with a frieze of quotes from the apologizers.

For this exhibition at the College of Fine Arts (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia), I expanded this series and made the accompanying publication, SORRY (2008), to share a larger breadth of my collection of mouths and their correlating apologies.