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Unsettled
Artist's book: 8 hand-bound dossiers housed in a solander box (screen prints, archival pigment prints, laser cuts). 33.5 x 21.5 x 8cm, 2022.
Unsettled considers the motivations and consequences of topography and toponymy – of place-writing and place-naming – and explores how language has been used as a colonial and bureaucratic tool to shape, control and 'settle' zones of upheaval.
Drawing together thousands of contemporary Australian placenames, the work reflects on the many acts of imagination or memory that collectively wrote over this landscape, inscribing the map with traces of emotion, bewilderment, violence, subjugation, opportunity, and failure. In pulling against the organising principles of cartography, the work seeks to disconcert, to discomfort, and to disorganise a ‘settled’ view of place. Visually unstable and cartographically disrupted, Unsettled speaks to the unfinished and restless nature of this country and its history.
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