2025
series of two black and white photographs
hand printed gelatin silver prints on Ilford Art 300
75 x 50cm
edition of 3 + 2AP
series of two black and white photographs
hand printed gelatin silver prints on Ilford Art 300
75 x 50cm
edition of 3 + 2AP
Installation view of the Invisible Horse series at the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre 2025
Artist Statement
These two photographs are shadow self-portraits that celebrate Hickman’s status as the Winner of the Australian Ladies Rough Rider Championship in 1905 and 1906, at age fifteen and sixteen. These images reference the experiences, hopes and dreams of a young girl at the turn of the twentieth century, who was apprenticed to a travelling buckjumping circus at eight years of age due to the hardships of family life. The invisible horse is a metaphor for sexism, misogyny and the invisible history of women.
The 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