Stations of the Cross 2017
Uniting Church in the City (UCIC), Perth
Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton, WA
My ink and graphite drawings interweave imagery of collected findings from the natural environment with a process-driven ‘stream of consciousness’ technique. Finding inspiration in processes of growth and decay, ecological cycles become metaphors for personal transformation: trauma into beauty, pain into awareness. Considering the concepts of crucifixion and rebirth, I find a connection with my own practice in that, all forms of suffering contain a transformative potential for growth.
The sourced imagery and collected objects in this exhibition have been found around the bushland and coastline where I regularly walk: places close to my home outside Fremantle. Sometimes I take home small findings that sit beside me in my studio and are studied and fingered like precious objects. Recently I have watched bulldozers tear through some of the places I regularly walk – the Coolbellup bushland and Beeliar Wetlands – and the collected objects now seem transformed into precious artefacts. Like sacred objects stored in a Church reliquary, these humble things are transformed merely by the significance we apply to them.
For this each exhibition, each drawing is mirrored by an inverted impression, like a trace or stain. The abstracted Rorscharch-like ink blobs (accompanied by their double), allude to an essential paradox – that within every thing is contained its opposite.
Curated by Claire Bushby
The sourced imagery and collected objects in this exhibition have been found around the bushland and coastline where I regularly walk: places close to my home outside Fremantle. Sometimes I take home small findings that sit beside me in my studio and are studied and fingered like precious objects. Recently I have watched bulldozers tear through some of the places I regularly walk – the Coolbellup bushland and Beeliar Wetlands – and the collected objects now seem transformed into precious artefacts. Like sacred objects stored in a Church reliquary, these humble things are transformed merely by the significance we apply to them.
For this each exhibition, each drawing is mirrored by an inverted impression, like a trace or stain. The abstracted Rorscharch-like ink blobs (accompanied by their double), allude to an essential paradox – that within every thing is contained its opposite.
Curated by Claire Bushby