1-30 September 2024
The Pale Carrier, 2023. Photo: Brenda Factor.
In September I’ll be undertaking a one-month residency at the Fremantle Arts Centre to focus on The Repatriation Project: Rituals For Letting Go.
The Repatriation Project: Rituals for Letting Go, is an ongoing project where a large seashell collection that began in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the 1970s, is reimagined into a series of artworks, actions, and exhibitions before being returned to their culture or place of origin. The project explores materiality, memory, place, value, beauty, desire, symbolism, and the ethics of collecting from nature. The project reflects the broader issues of repatriation facing museums and collections around the world and seeks alternative forms of engagement with objects or lifeforms we might otherwise be tempted to collect.
