Emma Florence May invites us into her experience of transition, which cannot be untied from the intergenerational haunting of deindustrialisation that reverberates across space and time.
From within her coal house, Emma asks us to bear witness to her personal struggles with haunted memories of belonging and identity. She uses collage and mixed media to bring ideas from her past, present and future into conversation with one another. This allows for the simultaneous fragmentation and re-assembly of objects of representation.
Exhibited alongside Emma’s works will be Re-Dobell: A Community Re-imagining of Dobell and Self. This display is a selection of artworks created by community members who attended a series of workshops.
These workshops explore students’ unique identities and sexualities through the fragmenting, embellishing, and reassembling of the portrait works of William Dobell.
Image: Emma Clifton, From Within the Coal House. Courtesy of the artist.
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