Mutter, willow withies, teabag paper and machine stitch,
230 × 180 × 80cm, 2024
My work is a collection of sculptural forms incorporating conversational audio, kinetic installation, illumination and dynamic pattern. Abstract forms engage in a discourse using archival audio that my father recorded of my childhood, growing up from baby to adult: where memories blur, voices change, and I don’t recognise myself.
Through my joint honours degree studying Art and Theatre, my artworks have become theatrical in their scenographic presentation. The space they occupy, like actors on a stage has always intrigued me, but taking away ‘the actor’ has enabled me to think critically about the relationships between art and theatre, gallery and stage, audience and viewer. By encapsulating these performative elements together in this dynamic installation, audience are invited to question can art perform without actors in the space?