ABOUT THE SERIES

REMAPPING is a series of artworks based on changing the conventions that bind us. The map is broken down and then recreated in various modalities of sound, painting and walking.

Paintings: The map paintings are visually restructured through collaged maps overlaid with mixed media. The paintings bring something new from the past by reordering information in new ways. They become saturated with both disparate and unified visual information in details such as flora, fauna, music notation, topography and mark making. Concepts around birth, decay, growth and rejuvenation provide cyclical rhythms that predominate the work. The paintings have a perception of moving lines, shifting spaces and disappearing and emerging forms. They are made with local area inks, reconstituted maps, graphite and pen.

Walks: The map is treated as an intentional piece of history and exploration of human systems through experience of place in the present day. The maps are usually found, discarded or gifted and used as a starting point for routine walks and research. Today, the convergence of global networks, online databases, and new tools for mobile mapping coincides with my interest in walking as an art form. The rhythms and repetition of familiar walking patterns start to “remap” existing boundaries.

Sounds: Stories and sounds are linked from place to alternative settings through recordings and listening. Field recordings, interpretive sounds and snippets of human experience are gathered from site specific locations and neighbourhood walks. This results in a heightened sensory experience; listening, looking and rethinking environments and contemplating conventional knowledge systems. The geographical, historical and cultural context of a site or object are central themes to the recordings while physical spaces become areas of exchange and exploration. Themes emerge such as presence/absence, the commons, loss and shifting perceptions. The virtual recordings also raise questions about established truths, singular narrative histories and authorship through the fabrication of new stories.