Please see my 10 Images of support material below for my application for the International Engagement Fund, Creative Australia.
East Coast of Tasmania, 2023
Shot on Hassleblad 500cm, 120 Ilford HP5 Plus. Image on left is an in-camera double exposure.
Trace, 2023 & Inner-scapes, 2024
Trace: Collage of cyanotype on Watercolour Paper, varied sizes.
Inner-scapes: Shot on Hassleblad 500cm, 120 Ilford HP5 Plus. Silver Gelatin Print, 16x20inch
In Inner-scapes, the large black and white print, the stillness and severity of the Tasmanian landscape are harmonious in the image. The dichotomy of harsh and soft in this image, as well as the blurred and underdeveloped edges, speak to the fogginess of a memory associated with a sentimental place. In Trace, the cyanotype collage of waves on Spikey Beach are captured as a trace, drawing inspiration from Megan Rippenhoff and her ocean works. Regardless of what changed if a person's life and impermeant memories, nature is consistent as a silent observer – the waves will keep rolling and tracing the shore.
No Longer Intertwined, Inkjet on satin fabric, 1.5m x 1.5m
In No Longer Intertwined, a rock collected from the Tasmanian shore weighs down the fabric - a print of a scanned Hassleblad, medium format 120 B&W film photograph - embodying the heaviness attached to intricate and painful memories of a place; a suspended moment in time.
East Coast, Silver Gelatin print (3), 27 x 22cm
Family Portraits, Polaroid Lifts, 15 x 10cm
Mia Clayton’s collection of works explore the ephemeral quality of nature ― viewing landscape as a vessel for personal narrative. Within the harsh edges of the Tasmanian coastline is a comforting sentimentality, where every break in a wave or entanglement of seaweed unveils complex memories and emotions.
In East Coast, the connected horizon line between each photographic print forces a reflection upon the fragility of existence, serving as a silent observer to the intricate transformations occurring in one's life. The coastline remains unchanged, as if nature and memory have become one.
Family Portraits are scrubbed back and foggy polaroids that represent the impermanence of cherished memories, forever just out of reach.
Glenfarg Scotland, 2023
Shot on Olymus OM1, 35mm Kodak Gold.
West Coast of Tasmania, 2024
Shot on Hassleblad 500cm, 120 Ilford HP5 Plus & 120 Kodak Portra 400
