02/06/2024 - Hurstville Museum & Gallery

Reflecting on work undertaken during her Georges River Artist Residency at Carss Park, Bernadette Smith will discuss the way her research has been translated into a series of artworks now on display in the Dragon’s Lair Gallery. 

Smith’s visual research began by examining the social, conservation and recreational nexus of the eco-system around Kogarah Bay. Initially concentrating on the water itself by photographing around the bay at different times of the day, the series developed into Reflexions on Gamay, a moving projection of selected stills (currently on display in the Dragon's Lair Gallery).

During this time, Smith became increasingly aware that she was documenting a constantly modified coastal landscape that embodied ongoing colonial impacts. Influenced by historical perspectives, Smith created a second series of photographs that contemplates her own migrant and settler ancestry, and how this intersects with colonial impacts on nature and First Nations people.
 
Smith will discuss her research, photographic methodologies, and the way visual and philosophical meditations on decolonisation and climate justice have been created by blending documentary and fine art techniques such as superimposition and selective focus.
 

Sunday 2 June 2024 

 

Address

Hurstville Museum & Gallery 
14 MacMahon Street, Hurstville.
 

Time

2.30pm - 3.15pm
 

Cost 

$25.00 per participant (excludes materials).
 

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PLEASE NOTE: Attendance at our events may be digitally recorded through photographs and/or videos. These images may be used by Georges River Council and Hurstville Museum & Gallery in their publications, social media, Council’s website or newspaper. Please notify staff if you do not wish to be filmed.

Image: Bernadette Smith, Eventide, 2023, digital photograph. Courtesy of the artist.