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THE GALLERIES
FIRST SPACE
Hearth - Louise Daniels
"Hearth continues my creative interpretation of the traditional life of my ancestor, Woretemoeteryenner, and the colonial times she and her people endured.
The shells have fallen from middens in the dunes at Little Musselroe Bay in Tebrakunna, our Country. Many still contain ash from the fires of the Old Ones, and plant matter holds it together.
Our women and girls were taken from that bay by the sealers who plundered Bass Strait early in the nineteenth century. Many were cruel. Our men were shot as they gathered at their campfires, and their blood flowed red into that white sand.
My self-portraits portray human emotions I could have shared with Woretemoeteryenner. The charcoal, from a campfire in Tebrakunna, is worked in the negative. This represents the having and the removal - the loss - which was a constant theme of her life. Black gave way to white. Woretemoeteryenner colonised."
INNER SPACE
Necessary Torture - Clara Martin
"The home is a site of creation and destruction, it is a place of comfort and suffering. Historically, the home has been a feminine domain and so is symbiotic to the feminine. The alignment of opposites in spaces such as this inform one another, it is a tale of give and take.
For many centuries the tasks women performed were considered needful, helpful, wise, and in some cases holy. They were midwives and healers, and in old age a sage of wisdom. With the publication of the Malleus Maleficarum, this behaviour was contextualised as the root of all evil. It is important to acknowledge that the feminine is capable of both."
BACK SPACE
fighting the wind and little demons - Liz Braid
"This body of work is an exploration of weather patterns and their effect on both the external landscape and our interior worlds. It seems to form a path between a sense of self and beauty of place, creating a quiet hum of dissonance. On the weekend that Tasmania opened its borders I was driving eastwards, away from the pull of the north-west, toward the summery coast. Winding down to that line where deep blue kisses the white sand, it was windy and hot and almost apocalyptic. For a moment it was as if the weather was passing through my skin, and swirling through my head and heart, blowing eddies and patterns around my interior world. And so began this visual exploration of these two domains, separated only by the thin paper of my porous skin. Over the months that followed, living and working beside a bend in the bubbling Cam river, surrounded by goats and gardens and orchards, these patterns of weather and skin and heart, have found their way onto paper and mixed media. The result is this series titled - fighting the wind and little demons."
THE SPACE
SELF LOOP - Harry Holcombe-James
"These images are interpretations of the experience of SELF: an augmented reflection that used light and sound to isolate you with yourself. As you see and understand yourself within the changing and evolving environment, SELF creates a perceptual feedback loop.
Using the tradition of camera feedback, I have taken this loop and created a series of images that capture a snapshot of the SELF experience. By placing the object of the viewer between the camera and its feedback loop screen, SELF LOOP emulates the distorted effects our minds conjure while within SELF. These images will interrogate the transient nature of these lived experiences, and what can come from further reflection on a still image that lingers rather than fades from moment to moment."