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Lucinda Sherlock
Lucinda Sherlock is an artist who writes and draws. Her artworks deal with the documentation of events and the question of language and personal storytelling. Her artwork seeks to express this with the help of writing and mixed media, by telling a story or creating a metaphor. These works are usually presented in book format for the viewer to read through. Key influences in her work are abstract expressionism, minimalism, traditional Japanese art and asemic writing. Connection with her families, both Non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal, has given her a strong interest in Aboriginal Artists of the Northern Territory. As a child of adoption, her artworks focus on the communication of thoughts and writing in a universal language, attempting to share a common dialogue. Text as narrative. Text as words. Words as mark-making. Text as sense/feeling. Text as thoughts. The process of writing, re-writing, layering and reinventing is a documentation of memory and experience. It is a clarification thought, absorbing the tradition of remembrance, and reflects, discourse and authenticity through asemic writing. More on Instagram @lucindasherlock.
“Through my experiences, I have complex stories that are personal and private and not easily communicated. Asemic writing has allowed me to communicate these stories in a nonverbal language. I am transcribing myself through broken and unbroken words, like stitches, in the hope of finding a way of sharing these stories with others. These images from my current book, Scattering a Wavelength, come from a long-term notion about the sound of words in utero and in the afterlife, places that are other than here and now. What could these words and sounds look like, how would they be transcribed? The scattering of a wavelength refers to colours and sound being stretched and pulled apart out in degrees of light and sound. Are they connected to these other places? Do they explode like a super nova when you are born and when you die? I have taken blue as the sound and the black ink as the text to be spoken or read. If your body keeps a record of where you have been, then the wavelengths must be endless.”
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