Wellspring; (noun): a source of continual supply.Wellspring, 2024, installation, photographic wallpaper prints, graphite and charcoal on handmade cotton rag paper, and artist book, about-place/ about-face, Caloundra Regional Gallery.
In 2023, I found myself unexpectedly thrust back into rural life on a Hebridean island off the West Coast of Scotland. Living and working for an estate in the Ardmeanach Peninsula on the Isle of Mull. Wellspring is a series of works that document my search for meaning and understanding within that landscape. A psychogeographical response to specific synchronicities in landmarks and landforms that grounded me in a year of uncertainty. This work represents the continuing story of the Ardmeanach Peninsula. The living present tells of the violent past. The Sycamore tree mirroring the towering Basalt steps of the Peninsula in her own bark. The future bubbles and forms in the shadows of the wellspring. Calcite and lime premonitions in the cave.
1. Water Ghosts
2. Green Guts
3. Cave Eye
Installation for the about-place/ about-face exhibition at Caloundra Regional Gallery.
Wellspring is a site-responsive installation that explores ecological memory and the porous relationship between body and landscape. Developed through field-based research and material experimentation, the work incorporates organic matter and expanded drawing processes to evoke subterranean and hydrological systems.
The installation brings together sculptural and two-dimensional elements to create an immersive environment, inviting audiences to move through and attune to subtle spatial and material shifts. This work reflects an ongoing interest in how environmental systems can be translated into sensory experiences, forming a foundation for my current exploration of acoustic ecologies and immersive, technology-mediated encounters.