MELISSA CAMERON REIMAGINES THE DISCARDED STEEL DETRITUS OF SUBURBIA,
to reconnect and re-make her experience of place.Virtual Artist Talk
– 12noon – Sat Sept 12th
"My migrant experience was moving from Australia to the USA, and back
again. These are politically very different places but share a lot in
that they are now colonized, white-dominated and majority
English-speaking countries. And they have lots of scrap steel lying on
their footpaths, roads and in open spaces.
In walking and learning a town I find steel sticks out at me.
Sometimes I collect it, documenting my finds as I go. Recently I’ve
taken to incorporating it in my work.
In re-membering these objects I am making additional connections to
the places I found them. Through changing the purpose and meaning of
the finds I simultaneously alter and solidify my memories of those
places. With this re-making my experience of place is continually
being regenerated, and so continues to influence my present." -
Melissa Cameron, 2020
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