Mosaic Memories
May 28 - June 8, 2024
Webb Gallery, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, 4101
Mosaic Memories is a show of 9 artists, that explores the lasting residue of memory through contemporary approaches to analogue photography. The works in this exhibition speak to personal and collective recollections, from natural elements to ancestral legacies, prompting reflection on the fleeting and enduring aspects of memory. Mosaic Memories celebrates photography’s role in re/defining our relationship with memory and the mediums capacity to articulate our shared human experience.
Exhibiting artists:
Amy Meri
Ben Van Gestel
Jori Etuale
Josh Trotter
Kyla Levi
Martha Bizimana
Mia Clayton
Serinah Williams
Tanya Clark
Inner-scapes, Silver Gelatin Print, 16x20inch, 2024
Trace, Collage of cyanotype on Watercolour Paper, varied sizes, 2023
Mia Clayton’s collection of works consider place in a personal context, viewing landscape as a vessel for personal narrative and memory. Within the harsh edges of the Tasmanian coastline is a comforting sentimentality, where every break in a wave or entanglement of seaweed unveils complex memories and emotions.
In Inner-scapes, the large black and white print, the stillness and severity of the Tasmanian landscape are harmonious in the image. The dichotomy of harsh and soft in this image, as well as the blurred and underdeveloped edges, speak to the fogginess of a memory associated with a sentimental place. In Trace, the cyanotype collage of waves on Spikey Beach are captured as a trace, drawing inspiration from Megan Rippenhoff and her ocean works. Regardless of what changed if a person's life and impermeant memories, nature is consistent as a silent observer – the waves will keep rolling and tracing the shore.
