‘Hollows as it holds’

Growing up on the Fleurieu Peninsula, I have lived in an ongoing dialogue with its shifting

forms, observing how both land and life respond to the pressures of wind, salt, and slow

geological time. It’s a place where the land doesn’t sit still. It folds, drops, and opens. Coastal

edges erode and reform, while inland, cultivated ground sits in harmony with remnant bush

and the harsh shifting South Australian terrain.

Hollows as it holds reflects on the meeting of these forces. Its exposure and shelter, control

and release. Through material and form, it traces accumulations of pressure, repetition, and

change where surface becomes a record of environmental shifts.

This work depicts the landscape by holding its conditions, offering a register of place

as something felt, shifting, and continually forming.