Artist statement: I am an emerging Australian artist who grew up in Ballarat, Victoria. Reworking found family archives and film footage has become the crux of my practice. In this process, I am building my own archive or identity, attempting to bridge the gaps between childhood memories – whether faded, idealised, positive or harmful – and reaffirming such moments as evidence.

My interest in working as an artist has grown out of a disconnection from early memories, lacking material proof of childhood. Later, adolescence was spent in and out of the family home; connecting to archival footage now offers an acute sense of vulnerability when engaging with audiences and has become a greatly moving process within my creative practice.

In my work I aim to break down the multifaceted layers of this archival footage and acknowledge living and passed family members, to build our family archive. In my process of deconstruction, dissection, childlike play and reconstruction, I invite viewers to examine the changes over the extended timeframe where environments were not documented. In such environments, interactions, distant conversations and the signs of absent family members come into dialogue with the present, through use of light and dark.