Artists statement

The series Shadowy Land explores soil from cultural perspectives and in relation to the body. Shot on large format film and lit by drawing with light during long exposure times, the photographs take as their subject the status of threatened species, themes of memory, mourning, loss and the Australian landscape.

Artist Bio
Dr Peta Clancy is a descendent of the Bangerang people from south-eastern Australia. Through her photographic work, she explores the hidden histories of colonisation and events that threatened the survival of her ancestors. Clancy frequently layers, re-photographs and manually manipulates photographic prints to reconstruct and lay bare these otherwise obscured histories in a contemporary setting.

Since the early 2000s, Clancy has exhibited extensively in solo and group settings in Australia and internationally. In 2017 she was curatorial advisor for Science Gallery Melbourne’s season Blood, and in 2018 she was awarded the 2018 Fostering Koorie Art and Culture and the Koorie Heritage Trust Residency Grant funded by the Indigenous Languages and Arts Program. She is Associate Dean, Indigenous, at MADA (Monash Art, Design and Architecture) at Monash University.