Drawing Acquisition - QVMAG - 2023

Correction Mapping has been acquired for the Queen Victoria Art Gallery and Museum collection. The drawing will be exhibited as part of the Wetlands exhibition focusing on the kanamaluka/Tamar wetlands near Launceston, Tasmania. The exhibition is opens at the Museum at Inveresk from the 16th of September 2023 and runs until the 31 March 2024.

Correction Mapping was created during the winter months of 2022, while I was living in Launceston to care for my parents and recover from a fractured wrist. A blue and black carbon line drawing, combined with bitumen rubber and titanium white painting, was layered onto an old sounding (depth) map of the kanamaluka /Tamar Estuary dating from 1833, during the Frontier Wars.

The lines were generated from several sources: tracing X-rays of my hand and wrist; mapping my riverside walks around the streets of Launceston; from a mid-C19th dual storm water and sewerage map of London. First invented to clean up the city of London during a cholera epidemic, a dual storm water and sewerage system was later built in Launceston, where it continues to create ongoing environmental problems for the Tamar Estuary.

Through processes of retracing, walking, and mark-making, my work addresses the ongoing effects on our community, land and water of colonisation and the intergenerational hurts of war.