BEST DAY

An on-going series of collaborative projects by June Gersten Roberts and Mary Stark, inspired by the wedding dress as a cultural object and weddings as a form of public theatre in which the bride acts a both director and star

Best Day includes location specific installations, films, drawings and tactile objects re- envisioning film as a sensuous medium

“Rich and enticing, a secret stairway into a lush turret full of secrets (and lies)...”

“...created a sense of intrigue, beauty, memory, disappointment and desire”

“Every time I looked I noticed something new”

“I loved the laced details… the needles hanging from threads, pins embedded in materials...”

Best Day at Lanternhouse International 2009

An exhibition, screening and immersive installation in a fairy tale turret, in which audience becomes performer in a fantasy of desire and fear

The Bride Unlocks Bluebeard’s Cabinet at Lunesdale Arts Trail 2010

Mixed media installation: bridal dresses, film stills, paper, pins and pearls

The Bride Remembers the View from Her Turret

Mixed media tactile object: glass, wood, rose- hedge and film stills

The Bride Dreams

Film stills; work in progress
Dancer Gerry Turvey

Discarded Wedding Dresses Charcoal drawings