Intangible Legacies
"Our creative sparks are often quiet echoes of the people who shaped us. 'Intangible Legacies' examines this interplay, illustrating how the things we keep and the moments we remember intertwine our artistic identity with the lives of those we love. Through layered materials, prints, collage, painting, and assemblage, Louise and Jennifer’s artworks reflect on the past and look toward the legacies we leave behind."
For 'Intangible Legacies' I have a series of landscape paintings on vintage book covers, painted ephemera, lino prints, watercolour/gouache, and mixed media works using collected items. I seek to explore the way our relationships and shared stories shape the way we creatively see and feel.
Thank you to all who came along to see what Louise and I have created and shared stories that made you too.
“Dark Hedges and byways” 2026 Acrylic on Vintage book cover
Antrim is a county in Northern Ireland with a stunning coastline. My maternal grandparents were big influences in my life. My grandfather migrated to Australia from Belfast at the turn of the 20thC. Whilst my grandmother was the daughter of a Northern Irishman, from Enniskillen, so Northern Ireland is still a very special place for our family. The from cover of this book seemed very fit for purpose. The legacy of travelling to places generations past have walked is very enriching for me, it links me emotionally with their lives.
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“Antrim coastline “ 2026 Acrylic on Vintage book cover
Antrim is a county in Northern Ireland with a stunning coastline. My maternal grandparents were big influences in my life. My grandfather migrated to Australia from Belfast at the turn of the 20thC. Whilst my grandmother was the daughter of a Northern Irishman, from Enniskillen, so Northern Ireland is still a very special place for our family. The from cover of this book seemed very fit for purpose. The legacy of travelling to places generations past have walked is very enriching for me, it links me emotionally with their lives.
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“£10 Hope” 2026 Stitched and collaged in cutlery box.
My family migrated with hope for a life in Australia that would be better than the one they saw for themselves in the UK. My maternal grandfather came from Belfast at the turn of the 20th century as a small boy andthis image is from a photograph he took. My father was British arriving in 1960 as a research scientist (along with his wife, my mother who was from Australia) who migrated under the £10 scheme of that time. Their stories and family still in the UK are part of my history. Like many others, the image of the ships leaving for adventure across the world was imbued with excitement and sadness as the streamers that held a physical link, broke as the ship set sail.
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“Elegant legacy” 2026 Stitched and collaged in cutlery box
My maternal grandmother Ella, was an independent, strong woman who taught me etiquette, elegance, embroidery, to crochet lace and knit. She also shared ideas about beauty in well made designed things. I loved her spoon collection and the way she used linens and gloves. This is a cotton print of her wedding photo from 1925, embellished by me with embroidery and hand crocheted lace like she taught me. The box and teaspoons were from her beloved collection and I have included a pressed flower in one of grandad's slide classes. We hold onto things we cherish, they remind us of the relationships.
PRICE FRAMED : $290 (contact me via email)
“In quiet moments” 2026 Stitched and collaged in cutlery box
I recently discovered this photo of my eccentric Great aunt Eva. Her posture and hat reminded me of literature my mother introduced me to and art my father loved. In addition, Eva ran a nursery school in the 1920s - 1950s at Dee Why. She loved to write us letters and add her own drawn pictures when my sisters and I were children. She is one of the only other teachers I know of in my family and was devoted to following student progress. I loved the way in this image she was outside in the garden, reading in a classic pose and included a section from one of her teaching books.
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“Memories bright and beautiful” 2026 Watercolour & gouache on paper, pressed flowers and waterclour on vintage sheet music + lino print and collage.
Bringing together images and ideas this work is a tribute to family and things I grew to love and enjoy. Special items that came to the table on occasions to celebrate, the legacy that travelled from Ireland to Australia and music of flowers and art. These are bright and beautiful memories and there are stories that go with each object I have arranged and painted
PRICE FRAMED : $210 (contact me via email)
“Riverina Skies” 2024 Edition Reduction prints
PRiCE $180 each (unframed available email for individual images)
“Riverina skies” 2024 Reduction Linoprint
Having grown up in the NSW Riverina the big skies of the region has always been influential, especially memories of the red dust on the horizon. As part of an edition of reduction relief prints for 'Seeds of science' I singled this work as one that stands on its own.
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“Seeds of Science” 2024 Reduction and hand coloured Linoprints, solar etching, tea stained cyanotype, gelliprint, drawing, collage and found items.
All my childhood dad was a scientist at CSIRO Griffith. I loved finding items of his research years later and kept them in my art studio waiting for a time when I would made them into a work. Part of my art making practice involves using found items, so it was wonderful choosing and incorporating items of dad's for this event, celebrating the very reason our family settled in Griffith. As a family we lived and breathed the seeds of sunflowers through dads research, and the images of the fields we visited at the station is a special memory. I remember working in the laboratory placing vials with a single seed into his machine and recording the reading from the screen in my mid teens. Included in my work are specific items from the 1960s - 1980’s found in dad’s shed. There are index cards with names and notations, specimens, left over bits and images from his thesis as well as soil from the region.
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