Inverted Relief - Studies at Junction Dam, Bogong Village

Inverted Relief - Studies at Junction Dam, Bogong Village builds from a series of iterative drawings made from analogue photographs taken around the dam and village in Victoria’s high country. I have reconstructed fragments of the site through layers of drawing and surface translations - the plastic barrier mesh that borders the dam, the aerial view of Lake Guy and iterations of the European Gardens. Each drawing functions as a plane of relation, registering the overlap between built and natural structures, and rests on a wooden shelf that recalls the 1940s scaffolding used to construct the dam spillway. This work explores how acts of drawing can hold the tension between observation, memory, and archive, forming a layered and subjective encounter with place.

Inverted Relief - Studies at Junction Dam, Bogong Village, 2025. Charcoal on mount board and boxboard, PVA and shellac on boxboard, plywood shelf and brass screws, 75cm x 75cm x 5cm.

Colour study, European Gardens, 2025. Mono print and pencil on Magnani Pescia, 20 cm x 15cm.

Installation views, The Garden of Forking Paths, Visual Diary Gallery. Pictured with artists Parminder Kaur, Ezz Monem, Pascal Nordenflycht, Lotte Frances, Bonnie Robin, Mirjana Savic, Lora Adžić, Grace Mitchell.

“Time forks perpetually into innumerable futures” Jorge Luis Borges

Photo: Camille Chapman