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PHOEBE KELLY
LIGHT MARKS
07 JULY 2021 - 24 JULY 2021
GALLERY 3
Phoebe Kelly, 'From my garden', 2020, bronze cast sage leaves. Photographed by Phoebe Kelly.

Through sculptural and photographic works, Light marks is centred around attempts to re-examine and recapture the fleeting and impermanent, be it a memory, a place, or a feeling. The work engages with the failure to return to or hold onto such experiences as they are distanced through time.

In these works, sites become literal and symbolic containers for locating emotions both personal and universal. Places of significance are revisited physically, through gathered objects and materials and through the photographic. Acts of collecting, tracing, etching and casting are used in efforts to transfer these intangible experiences into physical forms, and the resulting wax and bronze sculptures act as attempts to embody time within a material form.

Phoebe Kelly is visual artist and photographer living and working in Naarm (Melbourne).  Her practice explores how to navigate time, memory and space through the acts of returning and revisiting. She employs photography, casting and processes of material transferral to investigate how materials can embody time, and the potential to translate the poetic and the intangible into the physical.