BECOMING NOW

At BELCONNEN ARTS CENTRE  MAY 22 -JULY 5. 2026118 Emu Bank, Belconnen ACT

Using plants as metaphor, my work explores the human journey through layered drawing and stitched textiles. Strength and vulnerability coexist in forms shaped by time and experience. Each flower carries a quiet symbolic meaning, inviting reflection on endurance, emotion, and the ways we are marked and held by life.

Here is one of my art works from this show, Faded Beauty: Petunia 2025 | 410 × 510 mm | 20 mm oak frame

Hand embroidery on muted pigment photographic print on silk

Gentle white petals stitched with fine radiating threads hold quiet presence and impermanence. Stillness, fragility, and unfolding grace gather here, where fading carries its own luminous beauty and quiet renewal.

“If you think: yesterday I was, tomorrow I shall be, you are thinking: I have died a little. Be what you are becoming, without clinging to what you might have been, what you might yet be. Never settle. Let’s leave definitiveness to the undecided; we don’t need it.”

Luce Irigaray (1985). The sex which is not one. Cornell University Press (English translation)