About Process

Ground on ground, staining, rubbing, washing, printing, wiping, rinsing, ironing. These are the processes of my training and my inclination. They are continuously used and adapted in a dialogue with the land. Place and placelessness shift and slide as I deal with colonisation and dispossession. The land holds the traces of the past, glimpses are given, knowledge is gained and the dialogue continues. The archaeologist John Mulvaney once said that an inspirited landscape was one of the greatest gifts given to us by Indigenous people. My work aims to find a ground where this is respected across all cultures who share the land.

Drawing process

Drawing process
Membrane of Memory, Truganini Track, Mt Nelson, Tasmania

Monday, June 22, 2015

Torn Line

The roll of paper, initially the ground for an event, now shifts and becomes the line.
It has torn and broken into pieces. 
The record of a continual event changes into fragments. 

The knowledge contained needs to be both read in the pieces and imagined in the gaps between. The paper is literally a membrane bringing nature and culture into contact and retaining traces of both


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