2025
diptych
black and white photographs
hand printed gelatin silver prints on Ilford Art 300
individual image sizes 75 x 50cm
paper sizes (h x w) 1250 x 625mm
diptych install size (h x w) 1250 x 1400mm
edition of 3 + 2AP
diptych
black and white photographs
hand printed gelatin silver prints on Ilford Art 300
individual image sizes 75 x 50cm
paper sizes (h x w) 1250 x 625mm
diptych install size (h x w) 1250 x 1400mm
edition of 3 + 2AP
Installation view of the Invisible Horse diptych at the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre 2025
Artist Statement
Invisible Horse
L. The Buckjumper... I've got four dicks how many have you got eh?
R. Every day there's a horse to ride to some place out there somewhere
This diptych of self-portraits celebrates the female bushranger Jessie Hickman as the 1905 Winner of the Australian Ladies Rough Rider Championship at age fifteen. While researching the life of Hickman, who as young girl, was apprenticed to a travelling buckjumping circus due to the hardships of family life, two iPhone photographs were created and converted to film negatives, with the final images hand-printed in the black-and-white darkroom. As the shadows rise bold like trophies the invisible horse becomes a metaphor for sexism, misogyny and the invisible history of women.
Invisible Horse
L. The Buckjumper... I've got four dicks how many have you got eh?
R. Every day there's a horse to ride to some place out there somewhere
This diptych of self-portraits celebrates the female bushranger Jessie Hickman as the 1905 Winner of the Australian Ladies Rough Rider Championship at age fifteen. While researching the life of Hickman, who as young girl, was apprenticed to a travelling buckjumping circus due to the hardships of family life, two iPhone photographs were created and converted to film negatives, with the final images hand-printed in the black-and-white darkroom. As the shadows rise bold like trophies the invisible horse becomes a metaphor for sexism, misogyny and the invisible history of women.
Exhibitions
2025 Art on Paper Award (finalist) Hazelhurst Arts Centre
2025 The Carousel of Invisibility Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
2025 Fugitive Hill End Analogue Photography Festival, Hill End NSW
2025 Art on Paper Award (finalist) Hazelhurst Arts Centre
2025 The Carousel of Invisibility Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
2025 Fugitive Hill End Analogue Photography Festival, Hill End NSW
Invisible Horse
1. The Buckjumper... I've got four dicks how many have you got eh?
2. Every day there's a horse to ride to some place out there somewhere