Extending an experimental piece – carry me, carry me – exhibited as part of Earthwork in December 2022 (see header image), I developed the ideas further into two pieces titled Boat: Carry me, carry me as entries into:

• It’s a Small World Sculpture Exhibition – Newstead Arts Hub, 18 March – 9 April 2023, Castlemaine State Festival

• Art in Windows Trail: Castlemaine Fringe Festival, 16 March – 10 April 2023.

Each sculpture explores the theme of perilous ocean journeys, referencing the trans-Atlantic slave trade, a journey made in chains, and other journeys made in fear or in flight. I see these journeys as ever-present colonial artefacts, intangible and yet continuing to haunt our present. This theme has emerged through my family history research and is both personal and universal.

These images from the studio