Black Holes

2020-21

Drawing from North American writer and photography theorist Nicholas Mirzoeff’s concept of the ‘colonial gaze,’ Black Holes is a series of works exploring the settler-colonial gaze as a pervasive framework that has shaped  the Australian landscape as a blank space or a site of absence—an imagined void to be filled with settler-colonial narratives and possession.

This work explores how the mechanisms of the settler-colonial gaze could be registered and made visible within my photographs. Central to this exploration was the development of a “black hole” motif which serves as both a visual and metaphorical device, visualising the voids and blind spots created within settler-colonial landscape narratives.

Exhibitions:
Aesthetica Art Prize (Finalist), York Gallery of Art, UK
Critical Limit, Richmond Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne