Untitled Kipfler Paintings. Studio. 2020

Untitled, Kipfler potato prints on linen.

Created while on residency at Museum of Brisbane.

Potato printing is a way for me to reference processes drawn from the studio and the kitchen. The form of the kipfler potato captures an ambiguity that allows it to float within a array of biological fields, while still being anchored as a foodstuff.

The potato may represent a variety of body parts, right down to the cell.  The plant stores it’s energy in these bulbous rhizomes, to be utilised later by the plant, or to be eaten by us. There is significance for me in using this rich appendage of the plant to represent parts of our body.

The Untitled series are named after flavours, like varieties of chips or puffed starchy snacks. The kipfler cross-section is printed as the gentlest of impressions, the colour only just clinging to the linen surface, like the dusty dehydrated flavourings on chips that stick to your fingers. The elusiveness of the print is for me a reference to the emptiness of these snacks, both physically and nutritionally depleted through industrial food processing.

- Artist statement