Unceremonious

Nicole Foreshew

Opening 06.01.16 6-8pm
Artist Talks 28.01.16 6-7pm

Nothing is more powerful or more ngayirr (sacred) than the relationship between the garraba, marrin (body, the human body) and dhaagun (earth, dirt, ashes, land, soil).

In this exhibition titled Unceremonious the development of new works explore photography, earth materials and minerals. Each work seeks to further investigate concepts of place, tracing personal connections to kin and the material knowledge required to retrieve and revive the body. The work features a combination of broad contemporary uses of minerals through documenting passages related to my sacred homelands - Wiradjuri Country.

The works reconstructs Australia’s most significant excavations, the embedded relationship with the body and source material – minerals, rock, clay and wood. Each work fuses elements of materiality, with a response that connects to the residue of objects removed and or protected.