Cassie Sullivan
2024 AiR
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Cassie Sullivan is a lutruwita/tasmanian Indigenous contemporary artist She is using her residency time to explore a multidisciplinary approach to being in conversations with Country. She writes:
"A conversation with the grass tree.
About repetition, control and grief.
A deconstruction,
of layers and time."
She is currently working across emotive ink drawings with grass tree leaves which have been collected in conversation with (and in care of) the balga, repetitively building an in-studio installation and an emotive paddock installation, failing at resin constructions, expanding her video practice, gearing up to printmaking and falling back in love with written and photographic journalling.
Cassie Sullivan was selected as the 2024 Funded Residency recipient.
"Sullivan’s material acuity immediately stood out in her submission. Her multi-sensory practice of engagement with Country was exceptionally realised and interwoven with clarity and sensitivity through her writing. Her proposal for eight weeks residency at The Farm researching the themes of waters and ancestral memory will be very special site responsive work" - Penny Coss, Selection Panelist, 2023.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Gallery
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Images by Olive Lipscombe, 2024.
Cassie Sullivan
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I work towards having a responsive, intimate and experimental practice that crosses disciplines of moving image, photography, writing, sound, installation and printmaking. I am currently exploring themes of intergenerational experience and trauma that reside in bodily memory. I am investigating the ways in which knowledge from my indigenous lineage has been both carried and lost within my identity and body. I work with a process driven and experimental practice giving hierarchy to a sensory engagement with Country. I am constantly questioning what can be imbued through materiality to give voice to complex identities and sites of significance.