My artistic journey with Liddell Power Station began in a fascination for its floors – silent witnesses to the countless people who traversed them, shaping and being shaped by the legacy of this industrial giant. These floors, often overlooked, were the unyielding foundation upon which the Station’s operations and the livelihoods of many depended.

During my site visits, I captured 51 impressions from various areas of Liddell, each bearing the weight of countless footsteps and echoing the station’s enduring impact on its workers, the community, and the wider state. These impressions, transformed into porcelain, became the beating pulse of my work.

In this piece, each boxed impression rests upon a floating platform, symbolising memory – the ethereal nature of remembrance as the physical structure of the power station fades into history. A platform, once grounded in the station’s reality, now hovers, signifying its elevation from the material world.

With 52 boxes in total, I pay homage to the station’s 51 years of operation, with the additional year marking the passage of time since its decommissioning. The stark absence of a solid impression in the last box, represented solely by mesh, signifies the station’s final year—a reminder of its eventual closure.

Each box, illuminated from within, serves as a beacon, honouring the resilience of the station’s workers and the luminous energy it once generated. The interplay of light and shadow celebrates both the intrinsic beauty of humanity and the electrifying essence of Liddell.

In this work, I invite viewers to reflect on the profound interconnectedness between infrastructure, memory, and community – a testament to the enduring legacy of Liddell Power Station.

Slip-cast and hand-built porcelain boxes, oxide, plywood platform, led lights.