Embrace at Jennings Kerr Oct 10 - Nov 2, 2025

Embrace, is created by carved burning, rust, lime and hints of gold to create works that are both materially raw and conceptually sophisticated. Each surface is subjected to processes of burning, corrosion, and layering, reflecting the tension between destruction and creation — a central aesthetic principle that underpins much Indigenous art practice, as described in Judith Ryan’s The Raw and the Cooked. Here, the untreated and the transformed coexist, symbolising the shifting realities of identity, memory, and survival.

Central to Embrace is a love story — the convergence of the hunter and the gatherer, the only two symbols that have been utilised. Once distinct, they are now entwined, creating hybrid patterns that honour both tradition and transformation. Their embrace is generative, an act of creation that acknowledges rupture but insists on beauty born through resilience.

My practice does not aestheticise trauma but instead distills it into visceral, elemental forms. Embrace invites the audience to observe where raw material, scarred surface, and lived experience coalesce — offering works that are both deeply intimate and universally resonant. Each piece is not merely an object, but a testament to the capacity for renewal, inscribed through fire, earth, and the enduring human impulse to make meaning from memory.

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