Photography
Jasper - Red Sun
Photographed as a new day breaks this series observes our profound and fragile Australian environment and humanities relationship with nature. Foxes were introduced to Australia intentionally in late 1870’s but with devastating results. Now considered a ‘pest species’erradicating our unique biodiversity, one may legally cull by methods of baiting, trapping and shooting.
So although now the red fox must die to save so many others, a moment of appreciation and empathy is captured here, to acknowledge and make aware the impacts of our decisions.
Ornithologist in Residence
The museum, roadside and scientific specimen are examined simultaneously within my practice. The photographs engage with conflicting processes of death and collectively navigate the many forms of decomposition and the methods of preservation put in place to defy it. The works investigate the life and death of birds and presents the findings as credible, playing with an audience perception of what is fact and what has been fabricated by the lens. The photographs play on the boundaries and tensions between the beautiful and the grotesque and through these specimens of decay I attempt to explore life.
I am drawn to the binary of beauty and disgust, fact and fabrication and their simultaneous existence. My investigations, experiments and research of birds in death began on a roadside and led me to the museum specimen and the scientific one. Through photography the birds never rot past the point of the photograph, decay is defied and death ultimately conquered. Left to decompose or mounted on display I am fascinated by these processes of death and how the camera as an implement can manipulate either.
Cafe Society
Overwhelmed by heavily draped furs, the subject remains blinded to the tragedy of exploiting animals for fashion. Evoking a sense of uncanny discomfort and hopefully awareness, fur was once in high demand causing immeasurable devastation. Despite today's hindsight fur farms and animal cruelty for fashion continues.
Perhaps uncanny and slightly disorientating these works explore themes of women, the body and place, memory and mystery with only a fragment of the narrative presented before the viewer.
The story you walk away with is yours to believe.
Bee Heard
Bees gather on a garden green phone, a bakerlite blast from the past. Three of Australia’s natives species of bees are already recognised as endangered. Many more are considered vulnerable as their hives and habitats continue to decline. Calling out for help these bees attempt to adapt to their new domestic hive. Hoping to not also become a thing of the past.
Saying Goodbye To a Childhood Friend
These works were for me. To help me process the end of my childhood and my apparent inability to cope with that time in my life ending. I'm not good with change . But with my imaginary friend Edgar the peacock I am a kid once more. These are about saying goodbye to an era that I'm not sure I will ever truly be able to leave behind.
Rosie and Rosamund
My subjects although deceased possess a life and personality of their own. This series attempts to capture the beauty, affection and playful nature of these two Australian Rosellas named Rosie and Rosamund.
Pushing Up Daises
‘Pushing up daises’ is a playful, tongue in cheek exploration of death.
Little Pink Box
Three mice coyly play hide and seek with the audience, peeping out within the folds of luxurious silk. Referencing imagery of female genitalia ‘Pink on the Inside’ attempts to arouse the senses in an exploration of colour, texture and feel, the images are a juxtaposition of beauty and death.
The lowly mice lay silently with their tails teasing us, a fetus like subject positioned within the womb created by the layering of pink on pink fabrics, soft and fleshy their life and death is made beautiful.
Mould Growing Wings
Fairy floss clouds and mould growing wings
Floret
Mimicking photography’s ability to freeze time the ice and flower sculptures of Floret pause in time. Never melting or wilting past the point of the photograph. Capturing their image renders them into a state of permanency. They are paused in the photographs hesitation of time.
Dusty Skies
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