Melt, 2020-2021
pigment inkjet print on archival cotton rag
84.1cm H x 59.4cm W [edition of 10 + AP] | $1380 unframed
110cm H x 110cm W [edition of 5 + 2AP] | $4500 unframed *one edition left
6x6 photographic negative exposed to open flame.
The image was created six months after bushfires passed through Scottsdale Bush Heritage Reserve. The photographic negative was later held over a flame in my studio. It feels that the heat of the flame reveals the memory of this landscape - speaking to a subterranean subconcious energy that often hovers on the periphery of our understanding of place.
I have been very fortunate to spend time walking Scottsdale with Ngunawal custodians Tyronne Bell, Jai Bell & Phil Carroll while they conducted a post-fire cultural heritage survey of the land. Their care and attunement for Country has greatly heightened my own experience of living and working with the Australian landscape.
This work was acquired by ACT Legislative Assembly in 2022.
The artist acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters which on (and with) she creates her work. 10% of profits from the sale of this work is contributed back to Country through Thunderstone Cultural and Land Management Services Aboriginal Corporation & Bush Heritage Australia.