Exhibition - Change is the Only Constant

St Arnaud Arts Hub, 2023

Where there was once life and chatter and color, now there is silence and crumbling ruins. Floorboards that once creaked, are now laid bare to rot beneath the open sky. These silent vestiges, littered across the Australian landscape, resonate with stories, memories and questions for me.

Through exploring how the natural world, assisted by time, can alter and erase forms and built structures, Change is the Only Constant presents deterioration as something that can be both confronting and a thing of immense beauty. This exhibition of new work explores a litter of abandoned buildings, altered topographies and dying trees, which while bruising the landscape, also radiate a melancholic allure.

Changed by time, the decaying structures and forms in these transportive images remind us of what once was, and of the power of time to alter both natural and man-made legacies. It is in this decay that we can find defiance and a visual magnificence, but also an acceptance that nature and time make change inevitable.