remains of context, 2023

Inkjet on cotton calico

Each panel: 70cm x 200cm

Commissioned by Bathurst Regional Art Gallery and acquired into the collection

Dhuluny: The War that Never Ended was curated by Jonathan Jones with Wirribee Aunty Leanna Carr

The small notice printed in the ‘Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser’ on the 14th of August 1824 with the word ‘proclamation’ at the top looks so insignificant in the archival scans. These small words with horrific consequences, this humble declaration of martial law wrapped in the polite formal language of state sanctioned massacre. remains of context invites audiences to consider what can be hidden and revealed in these brief words printed in the newspaper. The piece poetically transforms this blood soaked text with new possibilities, new potential, old truths. Using only erasure to manipulate the text remains of context reveals alternative readings that have existed in the proclamation all along. 

Read more about Dhuluny: The War that Never Ended in Memo Review.