Marking Memory | Denise Green
3 - 24 August, 2019
Since 2013 I have incorporated photography in my decades’ long art practice. Initially attracted to the medium for its memorial capacity, I combined photography with abstract drawings.
This work took an important turn when I discovered an album of my father’s Second World War service. Organized with a curatorial eye and indexed, this album documented his experience as a medical corps driver in the North African campaign, experiences he never disclosed. When he returned to Australia after the war he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, coloring the atmosphere of our family life and my childhood.
Discovering these photos explained my father to me. In creating photo collages from these images, I processed some of the experiences that he never did. Subsequently combining photography and painting, where the photographic image is silkscreened and abstracted, my work continues to deal with war, memory and trauma.
— Denise Green.