Markers
Made from upcycled wire, wool, and cotton sourced through family and friends the artist explores weaving and embroidery techniques and haphazard approaches to build forms reminiscent of traditional burial cairns constructed from different types of stone. The colours mimic the coloured layers found in the sandstone her father used to work with, whilst the fibre approaches are reinterpreted from her grandmother’s craft.
Markers, 2023, up-cycled wire and textiles, dimensions variable approx. 150cm x 300c x 150cm installed, Rookwood General Cemetery, NSW.
Finalist HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures, 2023.
‘Markers’ explores my ancestral connections to ideologies surrounding family, freemasonry, navigation, grief and the afterlife. These sculptures directly reference sandstones shards that transport me to a time when I was a child and my father worked in a sandstone quarry north of Sydney. He would often bring home scrap sandstone, and I would help move the pieces around the family yard whilst he worked on a landscaping project. By binding invisible lines to these ideas and memories my sculptures honour my instinctual connection to rock as a marker.
Artist Statement, HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures, Rookwood General Cemetery, 2023.