Julie Montgarrett

 

Wagga Wagga, NSW

 

Presence of Absence 2020

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screen-printed cotton; silk, cotton, polyester threads machine stitched fused to Fabriano and Saunders 180gsm watercolour papers

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When everything changes and so much is absent, the absence can take on a presence of its own. When all that is left is imagination to regenerate the absent, imagine a world without shimmer, splash, laughter and birdsong. Imagine what must be done to mend the fragile world.