Placemarks
Curator- Kristy Scaddan
Memories of place transform over time, details become etched, and others forgotten. We can connect memory to a particular setting, and we can mostly always recall where we were when an intense memory mark occurred. How much of a place is embedded and remembered from stories and photos and how much of these are lost or misinterpreted?
Placemarks is an exhibition comprised of ECU alumni, at various stages of their career, showcasing multiple disciplines from the Contemporary Arts degree.
Seven artists respond to a place from their past. The artists involved use paper, painting, installation, sculpture, illustration, printmaking, and glass work to present unique reactions that interrogate connections with all but forgotten environments and landscapes. New investigations, memory, photographs and found information are used to translate their recollection of their chosen place.
Placemarks | showcases the creative works of: Robyn BERNADT Hugh BRESLIN Shanti GELMI Louise GRIMSHAW Rebecca HEPWORTH Kristy SCADDAN Brianne SHARP
Statement
Impermanent
Suspended work: Solvent transfer and paper lithography on Japanese rice paper.
The town of my childhood has a particular coastal scent and that is the only memory of place that is truly familiar when re-visiting. Temporary textures and transient faces wash in and out with the wind, existing briefly. Details last long enough to capture in a photograph, leaving an ephemeral imprint in the landscape and a lasting one on film.
Heading back to my hometown I photographed the ever-changing environment to document the forgotten markings. With this printmaking process I trap moments in time that hold a ‘Placemark’ of the ever-changing patterns and formations.
