60cm x 76cm
Acrylic on Canvas
Ready to hang
 
Finalist in the Mission to Seafarers Art Prize 2022.
 
This is a map of Bondi Beach during the Social Distancing period of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
 
The beaches were closed, the shops were closed and life as we knew it had changed forever.
 
This is a reminder of how strong we are as Australians and how we made it through the Bondi Beach closure.
 
The red and white pattern represents the tape used when the closure was in place.
 
For an artist with Aphantasia, where the ability to voluntarily visualise imagery is absent, finding subject matter can become both complex and uncertain. These works emerged from the need to paint despite that absence, using locations personally visited as anchors for reconstruction.