Prue Wilkinson

I use found family archives from the fifties and seventies as source material seeking to find and follow the traces of people now parted. Fragments of my Great Grandparent’s memories are kept in boxes at Nanna’s. I savour wiping the dust off, allowing the lost memories to be interrogated and reinserted into present dialogue.

The drawings and paintings which emerge from this archive ask questions about locating the remains of a memory. I acknowledge the impossibility of understanding someone else’s memory, and so painting and drawing have become my methods of unpacking as opposed to understanding. I seek to both recognise and reckon with the unresolved present.