2024

Fresh off the boat and caught out by the strange reality of Australia in the 1850’s.
Sarah Mease Blacket.
Immigrant
My line of blood, held in a chair
Housed through generational change
With respect for the relics of inheritance,
A different world of English furnishing
Caught in a tension of belonging
Between here and there
It recognises the otherness of England
And follows the honk of the black swan

Materials: Antique chair, feathers (collected from Bayside beaches), coat hanger wire, hessian, bicycle spokes, chicken wire, brown paper, buttons, shell, tulle, cotton, bark (paperbark and spotted gum), nail polish, permanent marker.