Letters to my Father - SOLO - October/November 2014, Cairns Art Gallery
The Exhibition focuses on the fragility of memory, human mortality and the mundane moments that form the composite of our lives. Utilising personal symbolism, Rose Rigley finds the quiet markers of life and investigates the memorials we create to those that we have lost in death. Through sculpture and mixed media, the artists ponders the ways in which people store and access their core memories and how these subtle nuances of memory operate unseen, beneath the surface, to shape the individual.
On May 11 2013, my entire family gathered in a day of remembrance for an ordinary man, my father, who died exactly 20 years ago to that day. When I think of him, I am four years old again and listening to his impress written upon my memory. ‘Letters to my father’ has allowed me to pause, reflect and reconnect with my past; symbolically filling my father in on the moments of my life that he has missed. (Rose Rigley 2014)
On May 11 2013, my entire family gathered in a day of remembrance for an ordinary man, my father, who died exactly 20 years ago to that day. When I think of him, I am four years old again and listening to his impress written upon my memory. ‘Letters to my father’ has allowed me to pause, reflect and reconnect with my past; symbolically filling my father in on the moments of my life that he has missed. (Rose Rigley 2014)
Images: Michael Marzik