HALL OF MEMORY

The rise of the Counter-Monument movement tried to make meaning out of the awfulness of the Holocaust. Counter-monuments often create negative space, depicting the ever-changing conditions of memory. They call into question the tendency of traditional monuments to displace the past, reducing and overshadowing viewers. Counter monuments do not console but provoke, they talk to the ways time, memory and current history intersect. Counter memorials throw back the burden of memory. So far, Anzac has remained untouched by the counter-memorial movement. In Hall of Memory, I imagine what a print-imbued Australian war counter-monument would look like if it reflected the true cost of war.

Shown at:

RMIT Graduation Show, Melbourne, December 2022

River of Art Festival, Moruya, September 2022

Red Gallery, North Fitzroy, November 2023

Torrens Drill Hall, Adelaide, December 2023