Tidal Remains explores the traces of human intervention left within the changing tidal environment of Stony Creek Backwash, a place I have walked, observed and documented for many years.

As a multidisciplinary artist, my practice combines photography, painting, collage, video, installation and collected materials to explore the changing nature of place. I am interested in the environmental, industrial and cultural histories embedded within urban landscapes and the resilience of nature within these altered spaces.

Stony Creek Backwash is a tidal environment where mangroves, native vegetation and industrial remnants coexist. The ebb and flow of water supports regeneration but also carries plastic waste and other pollutants that become trapped within the mangroves or accumulate along the shoreline.

In Synthetic Drift, photographic fragments of discarded plastic are enlarged, cut out and arranged across nine sheets of paper painted in saturated ultramarine blue. Removed from their original surroundings, their vibrant colours, shapes and textures reveal an unexpected visual beauty, creating a tension between their aesthetic appeal and the contamination they represent. The ultramarine blue reinforces the synthetic and industrial presence within the landscape, while the arrangement of fragments evokes tidal movement, where objects drift, separate and accumulate.

What the Water Holds, a video installation projected onto ultramarine blue paper, reconnects these discarded objects to the creek through moving imagery. Floating plastic and a submerged supermarket trolley reveal the contrast between objects carried by the current and those that remain as water continues to flow around them.

Tidal Remains reflects on the constant transformation of this urban landscape. Even though the water is continually moving, traces of human intervention remain within the creek.

Catalogue coming soon