Hatched - National Graduate Show 2014 …

Matter of memory 2 was chosen from the artist’s honour’s exhibition at UWA for exhibition in Hatched 2014. It is one of a a series of canvases stained by rusted sheet metal, sourced from old machinery, abandoned on the artist’s family farm. The indexical marks map the history embedded in the surface texture of the metal. They evoke the personal and collective memories the family acquired while using the machinery to work the land, but they also hold the memories of the art processes used in their making.

Matter of Memory 2 is a repository of familial events and experiences that explicitly identify the artist’s role as a mediator between past experience and present remembrance.

Photographer: Eva Fernandez