silence
Mixed Media Installation, Photographic Series
Winner of the Wallara Travelling Scholarship
silence is a series of multimedia walk-in installations, digital photographs, charcoal paintings and sculptural objects integrating a black and white scintillating grid. This installation featured over 1000 photographic soft plates with an optical illusion; causing white dots at the intersections of a grey matrix to appear to turn off and on like lights or an invisible type-writer in the form of a ‘living’ wallpaper.
Within each of the white lights, is a hand-drawn letter, appearing and disappearing randomly at the will of the eye of its beholder, like a conversation understood through multiple and never-to-be-repeated perspectives. With every attempt to decipher their unspoken language, the absence of logic and stillness leave only a sensory impression of infinitely flickering and constantly erased memories.
Silence: She Who Is Like Water
Finalist in The Mornington Peninnsula Works on Paper Art Prize 2026
A landscape of charcoal holds light at its intersections that begin to flicker as the viewer's eye moves over its canvas. The surface comes alive. The lights pulse, gather, and disperse, forming a shifting field like weather moving through a living body.
The paper canvas is held slightly away from its back surface. Each intersection becomes a well; allowing light to pass through and fall behind shadows created by an optical illusion. What appears is never fixed. This constellation emerges and dissolves in real time, like Morse code, held between presence and disappearance.
Light moves across it in small, persistent signals, as if something is reaching, responding, answering the viewer.
This movement follows water through the body of the Earth, through the hidden channels that sustain land, sky, and life itself. It carries what has been, what is held, and what continues to move beneath the surface of the land.
Within this moving current is a deeper pulse, a feminine presence that lives beneath the skin of the Earth. It does not speak in words. It listens. It feels. It holds and releases. It endures. It is the quiet force that sustains, that nourishes, that allows all life to continue.
This work is a reminder that we are not separate from the earth, but a part of the same field of consciousness, affecting it’s life force through our presence and our choices.