Artist statement: My art practice reveals the continued presence and patterns of Aboriginal history and culture in the contemporary Australian landscape, despite colonial interventions that have irreversibly altered the environment.
Through my artworks I am reconstructing the shapes and structures of the built environment to reflect the shapes of and designs on the belongings of the first people of Australia. The new forms that colonialism brought with it are being re-imagined and reconstructed to reflect the long history of Indigenous people in this country and to reaffirm identity and connectivity.
My artworks are constructed from a single photograph taken while walking on Country. Apart from basic editing, digital information has not been added to, or subtracted from, the original photograph.
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Also known as Giclee prints or bubble-jet prints, pigment ink-jet prints are generated by computer printers from digital or scanned files using dye-based or pigment-based inks. A series of nozzles spray tiny droplets of ink onto the paper surface in a precise pattern that corresponds to the digital image file. In dye-based prints the ink soaks into the paper, whereas in pigment-based prints the ink rests and dries on top of the paper surface.
Whilst the term is broad, pigment ink-jet prints have come to be associated with prints produced on fine art papers. They are the most versatile and archival method of printing available to photographers today. A wide variety of material on which an image can be printed with such inks are available, including various textures and finishes such as matte photo paper, watercolour paper, cotton canvas or pre-coated canvas.
