Every exhibition has the potential to evoke a reaction, inspire commentary and challenge the onlooker. I don’t want my art practice to sit on the peripheral, I believe it has the potential to tell a story. Art has the capacity to make connections and rouse passionate responses, both positive and negative. Creating an artwork in response to the closure of Liddell was no exception. 

We are all familiar with the story, but what I naively hadn’t taken into consideration was the ‘human narrative’ of Liddell‘s closure. Through creating a framework to incorporate both the human and industrial complexities of the historic site, I was able to consider the numerous possibilities for interpretation, using the body as a metaphor.

This grouping of wearables is meant to be contextualised from all angles to acknowledge and document this story, location and the human involvement, referencing life and industry, to ultimately question – where to now?