Hard Light represents an exploration of memory
and perception. The artist reclaims the intense quality of light from her
childhood in an Australian country town during the 1960s. Using Cyanotype
sensitised archival paper, blazing summer sunshine is filtered through symbolic
objects and places to portray the ghostly shadows of her past. Undercurrents of
metaphorical horrors beneath superficially benign townscapes suggest the trauma
of a child trying to understand and survive a violent family life.
