Thoughtfully accumulated, captured and created over the course of a tumultuous decade or so, this brooding series reflects on the artist’s relationship to ‘home’. The images are at times delicate and vulnerable, with rare subjects isolated in shadow, seemingly enveloped by an inhospitable world. At times the light or a spectre seems to encourage us to follow deeper into the scene, only to realise we are chasing something too elusive to fully experience. Walking the line between fact and fiction the images resemble both the artist’s memories of home and the strange, unrecognisable lands that surround her.
Taken by the Tide presents a world where the familiar appears alien, and crashing waves from the rising tide pull one further out into an open sea of loneliness. At times threatening to swallow the viewer whole, the series is not completely without hope. The work seeks to find solace in the liminal place between our world and the unknown lands of eternity.
