Here and There - Kim Lehman

As an artist I have always been responding to the intersection of memory and the stimuli of the present. Much of the resulting work is concerned with the relationship between the old world and the new, where I use photographs of my own travels as both an inspiration and a catalyst to create montages exploring themes of belief, pilgrimage and moral doubt.

 In a departure, this show includes new work that ventures past my own memories, work that is more focussed on ‘staying home’, and exploring the new world Tasmanian physical and cultural landscape.

 A key part of the show is the series ‘Here’: images of introduced (old world) and native (new world) flora which I have transformed through a process that mirrors the steps of traditional photographic methods. Another work, ‘Bloodlines (Panatana)’, is a direct reflection of my desire to better understand my own Tasmanian Aboriginal heritage through the lens of my own memories of place. In all the works I see myself as an intrusive narrator, casting an eye over the landscape and telling a story.