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Installation

‘ Momento Flori – 2023′

 Cyanotype and Porcelain

 The installation ‘Momento Flori’ was inspired     by the life and paintings of Fanny B Good, and   was part of the show at Puke Ariki, New   Plymouth “State of Nature – Picturing the   Silent Forest exhibition” 2023.

 Recording a sense of place and identity     through observation and material investigation,   notably photography, cyanotype, and ceramics   this installation was bought to life where I   created works on an intimate scale as part of   a larger installation.

 ‘Momento Flori’  – Detail

 Həːst(ə)ré  2020 

 A sense of dislocation and disconnection has   profoundly influenced my journey of identity   and  belonging, distorted through the lens of   adoption. 

 In this work I celebrate the women who   settled  in the Western Plains of regional NSW,   and seek to create connections with their   stories, their sense of dislocation and loss of   the familiar resonating.

 Remaining close to the media of embroidery   and  needlework  linked to what is seen as   traditional women’s  work found in local   museums,   recognising in it an opportunity to   re-combine   these skills in a new way, seeing   value and placing importance on practices that   have always been a part of my life.

   “You don’t know where you’re going if 

   you don’t know where you have been”                               – Maya Angelou

 With regional towns closed with COVID I freed   myself from the structure of colonial gardens,   exploring instead plants on verges of the   natural landscape.  Following Anna Atkins   botanical work with cyanotype, I gathered   objects, botanical material and photographs   creating new layers of meaning, and suspending   the vesica shaped canvases to retell their   stories in a contemporary setting.

 In acknowledging the women of this region I   hope to spark conversations of reminiscing and   wonder, a celebration of women’s ability to   adapt, create and endure life’s changes, and to   recognise, value and carry forward their   achievements.

   Həːst(ə)ré  2020 

 Cyanotype print, wax, botanical material 

eco printed linen and silk, gold leaf, thread 

(Installation detail) 
 
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