SUN.beats.STILL
The way place embeds itself into identity is of interest to me. We carry some places with us forever and they become infused into our very core. Some landscapes take up more room within us, and Arrernte Country was one of those places for me. My exhibition, SUN.beats.STILL is a collection of memories from my time spent in the N.T., hiking and camping along the MacDonnell Ranges (Tjoritja).
The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye aims to explore the way memory informs our identity and reality. By disrupting foreground and background, just as our mind might through the lens of recollection, I hope to create images which are neither rational or coherent. They are pieced together as if in a dream, making sense to the mind, but not the eye.
Reimagined Landscape
I am interested in landscape through the lens of memory, evoking intuitive, otherworldly paintings. My most recent body of work, ‘Reimagined Landscape’, aims to explore a psychological narrative of memory, identity and the subconscious. My intention is to distort the conventional landscape, foregoing representation and replacing it with imagination. These whimsical works are a vivid example of how the mind distorts memory. The paintings hang on the brink of reason; they cling to the edges of the mind like a forgotten dream.
Life is not Symmetrical
Drawn time and time again to the motif of moving water in her paintings, her latest exhibition; Life is Not Symmetrical aims to open up a discussion on change and impermanence. Hailed as a symbol of transience, the waterfall represents elements of opposites, mystery, rebirth and transformation.
Walters’ works often depict mysterious figures concealed in their ever-changing landscape. She explores the continuous evolution of being through these ephemeral characters. They become players acting out her psychological and philosophical beliefs and explorations.
Multiverse
Multiverse, the title of Walters’ exhibition, is a belief that we are living in one of potentially many universes. Bringing this concept of multiple realities into her everyday life has allowed her to be more receptive to subjective experiences. These works attempt to honour how individual viewpoints can co-exist while showcasing her own unique view of the world. The works are intended to feel familiar, yet disconcerting. These otherworldly scenes offer glimpses from another dimension; a world that could exist.
Inertia
Focused on the landscape of Bald Rock in Western NSW for this series; its’ atmosphere strangely foreshadowed Walter’s own mood that was to eventuate in 2021 – that of longing and stillness. The giant monolithic rock emerges out of the flatness of the land like an island of colour and shape against the charred forest below. The landscape is heavy with burned tree trunks and new growth, a perfect mixture of death and birth, light and hope, against a backdrop of destruction.
Skin on Skin
Skin on Skin is a contemporary take on the human figure within landscape. A series that arose from a global pandemic, it aims to subvert the idea of landscape as sublime, swapping it for a new doctrine. One that places the emphasis on human connection as the most coveted outcome. Developed during 2020, a year rife with lockdowns and limited human interaction, the works within Skin on Skin pay homage to human touch and connection.
Yesterday's Supernova
Walters asks the viewer to embark on a journey into the unknown with her in this series,’Yesterday’s Supernova’. To discard logic in favour of intuition and lean into her paintings, entering an imagined world. The global pandemic, and how it affected Walters emotionally and logistically, became a catalyst for this body of work. Restrictions meant that any travel was limited, which ultimately impacted her subject matter. It was with a renewed sense of appreciation for her hinterland home in Northern NSW, that she chose to focus on her immediate surroundings. Immersing herself in forgotten rivers, icy swimming holes and solitary waterfalls created a backdrop for her imagination to take hold.
Australia—Living Land
Australia - Living Land is a group exhibition with Zac Tilley and Harriet Goodall aimed at celebrating the uniqueness and diversity of the Australian landscape. Walters chose to showcase Tasmania’s remote and rugged South-West. Sub-alpine moorlands flooded with Spring’s first snowmelt became the focus of this series. Alive with the bittersweet harshness of the elements, these paintings rejoice in their vibrancy.
Natural Selection
Growing up in Bermuda, Walters was privy to harsh hurricane seasons which she has seen grow worse year after year. Natural Selection was created as a statement to her own observations and frustrations regarding climate change. Responding to the apathy and ignorance of the government as well as society, her intensity overflows into these paintings, sparking debate for change.
Taboo
This series aims to explore subjects of taboo nature. Taboo is a word of Polynesian origin meaning; forbidden by social customs. Despite our perceived progress on controversial subjects, we as a collective society still have a long way to go in eliminating stigmas surrounding certain topics of conversation. The more we are able to break down these barriers, the more human and vulnerable we become. This is the very essence of these works - the way we connect to each other through shared experiences, understanding and communication.