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Therese Briggs

 The materiality of memory #1 Orchaide and The materiality of memory #2 Orchid 

 

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 Fabric, graphite, colour pencil and acrylic on canvas, 2024, each work is 35cm x 35cm 

I’ve been exploring the concept of plant memory and displacement through the lens of the European expeditions when plants were ‘discovered’, exploited, and removed from their natural habitat.

I use a "paint by numbers" technique in response to the colour coding system of early botanical artists and include images, fabrics and script to convey a sense of memory.

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