2022

A Maree

NT

Charles Darwin University
Bachelor of Creative Arts

A Maree identifies as a creative explorer who aims to foster connections between aesthetic creativity and reflective engagement with social, environmental and health issues. Her creative practice investigates the impact of neglect, denial and injustice through compassion and a desire to share untold stories. Growing up in a military family, A Maree experienced different cultures and shifting landscapes. Through her lived experience and creative practice, A Maree offers an invitation to reconnect with ourselves, our communities, and our environment. 

Shadow Pandemic displays fragments of events that act as tentative evidence of domestic violence. Distressionist is a flash sequence from digital photographs which observes a visual distress call and radio silence. Window Stills speaks to feelings of isolation and paralysis. Paralysed out of fear – I am afraid for my life. Paralysed from doubt – What if no one believes me? Paralysed out of confusion – How can the person I love treat me this way? And paralysed from guilt – It must be my fault. Tea Time uses the metaphor of the shattered teapot to portray coercive tactics.