Trinity Johnson
‘Dreaming of this’ 2025. Found and recycled fabrics and bedding, eucalyptus oil, acrylic medium, thread, beads, earthenware ceramics, 210cm x 165cm.
Artist statement
Dreaming of this seeks to confront and reclaim the body from the after-image of its trauma. Interested in photographic interventions role in the fracturing and reconstruction of an image against expectations, the work operates through a decolonial feminist framework.
As a body emerges and disappears across the surface of the work, lines of thread and stitching follow its ghost upon the used bedsheet, playing into ideas of in/visibility and legibility when discussing the traumatic. Dual ideas of tension and comfort arise within the materiality of the taught fabric weighed down by heavy earthenware.
Photographs: Anna Kucera
Acknowledgement of Country
ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.
We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
