Company explores cycles of transformation, attending to the porous thresholds between life and death, presence and absence, the material and the immaterial. Rather than approaching these as fixed oppositions, the exhibition considers them as relational states—continually unfolding through encounters with place, memory and embodied experience. The works emerge from an ongoing dialogue with forces that resist visibility, proposing making as a means of entering into conversation with what is sensed rather than seen.

Developed while living and working in Ntaria (Hermannsburg), in Central Australia, the body of work is deeply informed by the temporal, material and social conditions of that place. Rather than positioning landscape as subject, the works understand Country as an active presence—one that shapes perception, movement and ways of knowing. The exhibition reflects an attentiveness to the reciprocal relationships between body, environment and the unseen, where making becomes a process of listening as much as one of expression.

Material plays a central role within this enquiry. Clay gathered locally, charcoal and naturally occurring pigments were incorporated not simply through necessity, but as a means of working in close relation with the immediate environment. These materials retain their own histories and agencies, becoming collaborators within the process rather than passive mediums. Their use collapses distinctions between object and site, allowing the works to remain materially and conceptually tethered to the conditions from which they emerged.

The title, Company, operates across multiple registers. It speaks to the profound experience of communal life and the ethics of interdependence encountered in Ntaria, while simultaneously invoking forms of presence that exceed the visible. Here, company suggests not only human proximity but the felt presence of ancestral, spiritual and more-than-human worlds that inhabit Country. Rather than attempting to represent these dimensions directly, the exhibition remains attentive to their subtle resonances, proposing the artwork as a site where material and immaterial realities briefly converge.

quantum entanglement, 2019 90 x 120cm
found pigment, ochre, gouache on board

warm blood, 2019 60 x 60cm
found pigment, ochre, gouache on board

campfire II, 2019 60 x 600cm
found pigment, ochre, gouache on board

campfire, 2019 60 x 60cm
found pigment, ochre, ink, gouache, charcoal on board

smoke cleanse, 2019 60 x 60cm
found pigment, ochre, gouache on board

company, 2019 60 x 60cm
found pigment, ochre, gouache on board

last breath, 2019 60 x 60cm
found pigment, ochre, ink, gouache, charcoal on board

abundant love, 2019 60 x 60cm
found pigment, ochre, gouache on board

souls going home, back to everything, 2019 90 x 120cm
found pigment, ochre, gouache on board