Within my being lies a latent, older frequency. This lingering memory stirs in the silver-grey of overcast skies, through gloaming light where edges dissolve, and along tidal margins where shifting waters absorb and reflect light. It finds form in the contours of green hills and in time-worn gravestones that lean toward the earth, yet look to the sky. It vibrates within the acoustics of birdsong and is gathered in the weathered shapes of sticks that gesture toward creaturely forms…
This latent, older frequency emerges from an Irish, English and Flemish inheritance. I ask: How does such an interiority negotiate its presence across the vast, ancient, unceded lands of Australia-and, most deeply, through my three decades of living and working on the island of Lutruwita (Tasmania)?
Across the spectrum of my making, my practice is an evolving space where works call and respond through time, holding the joy of earthly intimacy, creative intuition, and the existential unease of my heritage here within a fluctuating tension.
My large, abstract works on paper engage the vibrancy of matter. Across the page, ink and earth mutate and coalesce, giving rise to dark, submerged spaces that resonate with the entangled frequencies of memory. Drawing over these surfaces, my graven marks register the elusive movement of light stirring within.
Alongside these large works, smaller artforms offer an intimate space to think and feel through imagery at a hand-held scale. Within these pieces, evanescent shapes of being emerge and recede-faint traces of remembrance and an unquiet reverie surfacing through an imaginal threshold.
Recently, this inquiry has evolved into a physical dialogue with the transit of daylight and shadows, bringing photosensitive media and heirloom, handcrafted textiles together to create solar prints on paper. In a further iteration, digitisation captures this unfolding process; through tonal and chromatic inversion, tangible matter re-emerges as a ghostly, ethereal entity, rendered as a pigment print on cotton rag.
These creative processes often converge within site-responsive installations where the boundaries between the material and immaterial worlds waver. Occupying this threshold of perception, viewers are drawn into a contemplative, decentred relationship with the present and their surroundings.
Ultimately, my work yields a fragile pause outside of linear time, situating my being here on this ground in the immediate now, while tending with care and a quiet reckoning to the ancestry I carry.
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