Picnic at Ngannelong

2019

35mm photographic negatives hole punched, archival inkjet prints, 117x129 cm and projection. 

You cannot fully understand yourself just by looking into a mirror. Images (like personal or cultural identities) are multi-faceted, ever changing and most significantly, constructed. Picnic At Ngannelong combines still and moving imagery to create images that are symbolic representations of Australia as a place, rather than a nation; a place that exists as a result of both our imagination and our destructive physical presence.

This project speaks to the act of taking and defacing photographs of the Australian landscape. These works can be considered as having two separate processes, which run parallel to each other. It brings together past and present Australian histories, by combining past (analogue) and present (digital) photographic techniques; envisaging apocalyptic scenarios in which a storm of inequality, political instability and environmental catastrophes are slowly burning earth into extinction.

Exhibitions:
Centre for Projection Art, Colingwood Yards (2021)
Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Melbourne (2020)

Documentation of video work available here.