Hard Light represents an exploration of traumatic memory and perception. I have reclaimed the intense quality of light from my childhood in an Australian country town during the 1960s in a process that I liken to ‘fixing’ the ghostly shadows of my past. Blazing summer sunshine has been filtered through symbolic objects and contact prints of significant locations where I grew up, onto cyanotype sensitised archival paper. Undercurrents of metaphorical horrors lie beneath superficially benign townscapes. These are my memories of being a child trying to understand and survive a violent family life.
