The Jetty Gallery
Ann Coombers
"I am fascinated by the intimate relationship between First Nation peoples and the natural world. How abstract forms and natural objects contain or embody complex narratives, ideas, and personal or collective memories for them: recording and directing their movement through life, landscape, and time, and often passed down through generations.
Taking organic or biological forms as a starting point, I gradually develop, simplify, abstract – connecting with, and channelling, my own direct, emotional and instinctive responses to the world around me. During this creative process, I imbue the emerging sculpture with meaning – a story, remembrance, question, experience, emotion –recording my own journey through time and space, both imagined and real."