Work in Progress.
These images have all been made since the beginning of 2014, while working on an ongoing project titled ‘Confluence’, referring to the coming together of two rivers; the Yarra and Merri Merri. It is indicative of my current practice and illustrates somewhat of a beginning of a more refined working process and a focus on identity and history.
This work is for me both a response to and an attempt at comprehension of implicit attitudes of the white majority population of Australia (inclusive of myself). The work attempts to deal with how Australians form identity and connection to place in light of our collective histories and ongoing complicity in the theft of land, culture and life of the Indigenous owners of this country.
I am interested in how people reconcile themselves and their lives with the realities of what has facilitated their situation, and how this compares with the topographic and environmental evidence. I use the rivers as a vehicle for contemplation, making images primarily throughout the surrounding spaces, observing the interaction of old and new.
This project facilitates ongoing personal consideration of issues paramount to contemporary Australia and how they can be processed both internally and externally. So far this work only exists online and has not been shown in physical form.
