Eight beadings are for sale at Spring1883, represented by Caves Gallery.

If you can’t make it to the fair but would like to purchase a work, or would like more detailed imagery, please get in touch with Storm Gold via info@cavesgallery.com.

Asemic Series
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In this series, Camille employs the technique of ‘asemic writing’, a kind of free-hand scribbling or open semantic form of writing. In these works, Camille has randomly applied beads in rows to resemble Tone Code, a visual language she has previously invented to inscribe messages within her work. This series forms part of an ongoing body of work that explores and seeks to understand language as a social construct. These works specifically attempt to invoke the pre-language state of children. As Roland Barthes notes, ‘painting and writing start with the same gesture’. At a young age, children sometimes make no distinction between writing and drawing. A child will write you a chimney or draw their name. Asemic works return us to our first childhood encounters with writing. Not figurative nor semantic, simply rhythmic.

Each ‘Asemic’ work is available for sale.

Interested buyers please contact Storm from Caves Gallery at info@cavesgallery.com.

*Asemic 1,* 2023
24cm x 30cm (framed)
Glass beads, thread
$1,500 — Interested buyers please contact Storm at info@cavesgallery.com

*Asemic 2,* 2023
24cm x 30cm (framed)
Glass beads, thread
$1,500 — Interested buyers please contact Storm at info@cavesgallery.com
SOLD

*Asemic 3,* 2023
24cm x 30cm (framed)
Glass beads, thread
$1,500 — Interested buyers please contact Storm at info@cavesgallery.com
SOLD

*Asemic 4,* 2023
24cm x 30cm (framed)
Glass beads, thread
$1,500 — Interested buyers please contact Storm at info@cavesgallery.com
SOLD

*Asemic 5,* 2023
24cm x 30cm (framed)
Glass beads, thread
$1,500 — Interested buyers please contact Storm at info@cavesgallery.com
SOLD

*Asemic 6,* 2023
24cm x 30cm (framed)
Glass beads, 24k gold, thread
$1,500 — Interested buyers please contact Storm at info@cavesgallery.com
SOLD

Opus No.1
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Opus No.1 is a large beading made with 100,000 sterling silver plated glass seed beads. The work depicts a visual music code designed by Camille. The note lengths and pitches are represented by beads in different colour and length combinations. The song that is transcribed is ‘Opus No.1’ by Tim Carleton, which is used as the Australian Government’s Centrelink hold music. The chosen song considers hold music as a form of institutional communication that ‘holds’ the caller in place. Through this work, Camille is interested in understanding the relationship between ‘clock time’, which is standardised and institutionalised, and ‘lived time’, which is embodied, and can feel fast or slow.

For more information on ‘Opus No.1’, please see this page.

‘Opus No.1’ is available for sale.

Interested buyers please contact Storm Gold from Caves Gallery at info@cavesgallery.com

Three, Two, One
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This work is about the process of starting a family and consists of 91,000 glass seed beads. The writing within the work is written in Tone Code and represents the genetic recessive carrier results that Camille, her partner and their donor received when embarking on the process of conceiving a child. The work is a meditation on the trust and love required between three people, for two people to create one child.

‘Three, Two, One’ is available for sale.

Interested buyers please contact Storm from Caves Gallery at info@cavesgallery.com