Overcoming trauma with art

The trauma of the Holocaust continues into the next generation. An exhibition in Melbourne from April 30th will show the path that Roby Fuerst is taking. She shows her work under the title “Making Art: an Embodied Response to Hidden Trauma”.

 

The exhibition explores personal, collective and cultural trauma through a multidisciplinary body of work in the form of an art installation. Works include ceramic sculpture, drawing, painting, photography, historical documentation, sound and film. The exhibition forms a part of Robyn Fuerst’s practice led research culminating in her PhD of Philosophy, Deakin University.

 

Robyn Fuerst is the daughter of the Dunera Boy Walter Fürst, who came from Vienna. Walter was one of the witnesses of Heinz and Ida Dehn in Melbourne in 1951.