Halcyon / (un)told exhibition

During my residency at The Wilson Art Gallery & Museum, I deep-dived into the fragility and balance found in family photo albums, working with paper, ephemera, found photographs, and textures.

My year-long project, Halcyon, investigates the significance of family photo albums and their role in the digital age. Drawing from both found photographs and my personal family archive, I have reimagined the connections and disconnections within familial narratives. By resequencing images and reflecting on the physical materials used, this installation questions how our relationship with photography has transformed over the last 100 years.

Do we still approach photography with the same sentimentality, vulnerability, and candidness we once did? Halcyon visualises this tension, with found photographs serving as portals to the past — records of life curated through instinct, time, and chance happenings.

In the week following installation, it was a delight to sit in the gallery and hear visitors reflect on photography’s place in their lives. This project has been a moment to slow down, finding and celebrating how photos record both the significant and seemingly insignificant moments of life.

Halcyon is a meditation on memory and imagination, a reminder of photography's enduring and ever-changing significance in our lives.

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(un)told is a group exhibition alongside Dominyka Vinčaitė, Genaro Martinez Medina & Nic Pehkonen. Curated by Barnie Page.