Objectless Space

Objectless Space was created in the 1970s while still in my teens. This was a time of profound cultural and political change in Australia — a period of questioning old certainties, asserting new identities, and rethinking our relationship to the land. These images are not about what stands before the lens, but about what slips between. Influenced by the minimalist and conceptual currents of the time, I sought a photography that could be both material and immaterial — a surface of light and grain that evokes more than it records.
 
Influenced by the emerging New Topographics photographers and by the minimalist and abstract art of the time, I sought to unmoor the image from its conventional role as witness. Instead of documenting place, these photographs engage with its silences and ambiguities — the overlooked surfaces, fleeting light, and unanchored forms.