Holding Series, 2021
The drawings in the Holding series were developed during the 2021 Covid lockdown in Sydney.
Starting with a gouache base and charcoal drawing, they quickly became a symbol of trying to hold onto something that was slipping away.
The transparency and text overlay, added at a later stage, shifts the base drawing ever so slightly, heightening the sense of loss, uncertainty, and displacement.
Charcoal pencil with gouache and text overlay, 15 x15 cm each
Holding I
Holding II
Holding III
Holding IV
Holding V
Holding VI
Holding VII
The expanded drawings in this series started as an exploration of ideas of impermanence as a metaphor for presence, memory, and loss. They attempt to capture the porousness, fragmentation and instability of memory whilst also leaving traces of the past.
The materials used either have a ‘memory’ and can return to their original state (metal mesh, wire), or have transparent, see-through qualities (flyscreen, plastic sheet) that allow a glimpse beyond.
Sun and shadows have been utilized to encapsulate the idea of things/beings reacting to and being affected by their environment and external circumstances, constantly shifting as time progresses.
Antipodes Series, 2022
Antipodes, mixed media installation, approx. 2x2.4 m
Antipodes III, mixed media, 60x60 cm
Antipodes II, charcoal and pastel, 60x80 cm
Antipodes IV, mixed media, detail
