Across Divided Space

Prompted by the social isolation as a result of Covid, I attempted to capture the ‘aura’ of friends without their physical presence. I constructed low-tech sculptural forms which embodied significant aspects of my subject’s identities, reflecting on their physical autonomy as a unique individual, as well as using these forms in choreographed scenes to visually or symbolically reference how memory reconstructs my perception of them.

Developed during early stages of lockdowns in Melbourne, this constructive style of portraiture sought to build scenes which bridge the distance to an absent figure, as well as more broadly considering how bonds between people, friends or otherwise across society, can be built on the continual act of constructing and reconstructing.



Ella and Oly in the studio

Ella in the park


Oly at home