Lucinda Bird

Lucinda Bird is a Sydney-based artist working at the intersection of photography and print-based protocols to explore domestic suburban spaces as a means to encapsulate personal and collective narratives of gender and subjectivity. Using a collection of found film, objects and photographs from everyday life, forgotten narratives are reappropriated and reimagined to present a personal narrative and disrupt the photo archive. 

 Lucinda Bird has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National Art School and has begun a Masters degree. Bird is the recent recipient of the Commended Prize in the Lloyd Rees Youth Art Awards and carried out a residency at Megalo Studio at the end of last year.

This four part etching series inhabits the overlap between the fragmentation of memory  and the copy based nature of the print medium. Cut out shapes overlay one another during the printing process, creating negative space and subtle embossed lines, the layers are then mixed together and collaged into four unique compositions. The sense of absence and presence created by the positive and negative space in these compositions touches on the fragmentation of memory, never able to deliver a whole truth, but instead memory offers up parts of an image. The repetition of the printed image reconfigured from the same matrix plays with the idea of copy based protocols within printmaking  and mimics the act of misremembering.