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Memorial acknowledges historical and ongoing experience of loss in contemporary Australian life. Botanical prints of eucalypts are overlaid with digital collages of burnt bush from the 2019-2020 NSW bushfires, images of extinct native animals, as depicted by early settler artists, and fragments of 40 year-old personal letters that were shredded by rats for their nests.

In the ‘Landscape & memory’ series (2020-present) I wish to acknowledge invisible histories in the Australian landscape. The landscape is not empty and pristine, but is layered with memories and stories of those who have gone before.

I have worked for many years in a variety of printing, photographic and digital media, sometimes incorporating painting, drawing and stitching. My photographic and mixed-media work explores landscape in the context of human relationship to environment, culture and heritage.