Eve of Incarnation is a cross-genre photographic series created while I was artist-in-residence on Boonwurrung country, what is colonially named Point Nepean National Park in Victoria. The series references the artifice of high fashion photography to resist ethnographic projections onto the brown-skinned body in nature. A science-fiction narrative of emigrant experience is presented as an antithesis to the nature nude’s common depictions of passive, white femininity belying the violence of colonial history that brings settler bodies to the landscape... Preparing to whirl up a new collaborative incarnation birthed from this series but til then I’ll be showing the above work from the series, Summoner (2016) in the International Women’s Day exhibition and party featuring live music & deejays @schoolhouse_studios 81 Rupert St, Collingwood, Narrm, this Thursday 8 March from 6 - Midnight, it’s $12 + booking fee. The art exhibition (artists donating 50% of sales to Flat Out Inc) features Salote Tawale @solglow, Atong Atem @atongatem, Talia Smith, Steph Hughes, Rafaela Pandolfini, Danae Valenza and myself. Exhibition runs til 22 March. Wheelchair accessible, accessible bathroom. Flat Out is a state-wide advocacy and homelessness support service for women 18+, who have had contact with the criminal justice and/or prison system in Victoria. #iwd #flatout #fundraiser #textaqueen #naturenude #neverneutral #hightidefashion #naturecouture #kelpcouture #sciencefiction #seaswitch #sealeatherdaddy #madmax #boonwurrungcountry (at Schoolhouse Studios)
