What's yours is mine
Amelia Gaskell
1–18 August

As part of Amelia’s debut exhibition, this collection of photographs develops on the unseen attachments to the environment in the domestic sphere. This series explores themes of connection to place and the natural landscape through the portrayal of a variety of different households - underlining how ‘Australian’ cultural practices demonstrate a growing pathos which has fostered a detachment from the production and consumption of natural resources; framing this issue in the context of households aesthetics.

Amelia was first inspired by The Green City Sustainable Homes, Sustainable Suburbs’ (2005), to use the images of flowers - a typically idealised component of the household despite their absence of economic use value -  as a token to symbolise the broader disconnect between the processes of resource extraction and use among the Western world. Within this series, Amelia directly critiques the critically damaging principles which have exacerbated the over extraction of resources within the ‘first-world,’ using a variety of sociodemographic households for the scenes in her series of images to highlight how the issue of climate change is a global issue of ideology and thought.