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Exhibition title: Belonging: People, Place and Time, 2015
Exhibition venue: Roller Door Gallery, Darwin Visual Arts Association, NT
Artist Statement
Change is a powerful tool. It causes ripple effects that run into the lives of those around us. Moving from a climate of -10 degrees in NSW to balmy Darwin in 2008 I hadn’t experienced a lot of change in my consistent life. I had not experienced or even considered the ripple effect a huge change like that has, not only on my life but also on those around me.
There have been many challenges such as, adjusting to new dynamics in the family household after leaving my older siblings in NSW or adapting to the slow-paced and relaxed top end lifestyle. However, in hindsight I can see the patterns left by ripple effects that have pushed and swayed me to be where I am today doing what I am doing. Ripples such as the freedom to experiment with new school subjects including art, which I swore I would never do again after creating a deathly looking portrait in middle school. Today though, I have graduated from a bachelor of Visual Arts and I am showing my first solo exhibition!
Our lives are mesmerizing maps of choices in time, people we love and places we respond to. Constant movement and transformation in life is unstoppable and in this exhibition I suggest that amongst this persistent change, humans crave the soft, warm touch of belonging. We crave to belong. I crave to belong. To be accepted and understood. To be noticed and chosen. To share life and be loved. In Belonging: people, place and time I notice these moments in the world around me and seek to capture an angle of the heart of belonging.