Silenced :: Jennifer Collins
18 Apr - 23 May 2015
24:7 Front Window Space
Silenced is an installation of screenprints, papercuts and paper objects. The work is made from repurposed screenprinted wallpapers imbued with intricate and exquisite Eighteenth century prints of plants and animals. The sheer beauty of the early prints belies the legacy that the settler culture would later leave on the land. A mere 13% of the Big Scrub stands today leaving 207 vulnerable endangered or critically endangered species grasping for survival.
A monumental force of nature, even a waterfall can be silenced. Suspended in time and space the waterfall reflects man’s manipulation of nature into a linear timeline. The colours are bleached and faded invoking faded memory and loss and the whitewashing of political spin. Here a nod to the Terania Creek blockade, celebrating 36th years, the campaign was the first ever in the world that put an end to rainforest logging in NSW and naming of Protestors Falls.
In the present political climate lessons from the past come back to haunt us in the knowing that the earth’s resources cannot be squandered any longer.
This exhibition is a project of the SCU Curatorial Lab, overseen by Dr Wes Hill.
