Through my paintings, I recall the landscapes I encountered growing up in Tasmania. I do not paint them to record the past but to express how memories run and pool in certain places. Memory is the substance of my experience yet in time memories become strangers and we find our old selves strange. I explore how painting transforms memory into new territory: a territory of time. For me, painting is not picturesque; it’s more akin to the contents of a petri dish. In each painting I play with the synthetic stickiness and wet graininess of acrylic paint, incorporating its materiality into the representation of my landscapes.

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Untitled, 2020  
acrylic on board  
900 x 1200 x 7 mm