Slow Repair

Linda Knight

24th September - 11th October 2024

 Through drawing and critical stitching, as slow and hand-rendered practices, Linda maps white complicity and counternarratives of colonial histories. Through work that is committed, critical, and generative, Linda explores the scale of these impacts. As an uninvited white settler woman, slow work affords time to acknowledge those histories as meaningful reparative practice.

The exhibition includes a collection of hand-rendered sculptural objects donated by an international group of artists. Each object is for sale, with 100% of the proceeds going to Change the Record, a First-Nations led organisation campaigning to end the imprisonment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people: 

https://www.changetherecord.org.au/ 

A making station will be available throughout the exhibition for audiences to also create and donate an object for sale.

Using drawing and critical stitching practices, Linda Knight explores the possibilities of experimental cartographies as a reparative practice. Linda’s international profile as an award-winning artist and theorist includes transdisciplinary, experimental mapping projects that critically explore mainstream counter-narratives of colonial histories and devised Inefficient Mapping as an investigative practice.

An Associate Professor at RMIT University, Linda is Director of RMIT Mapping Future Imaginaries research network: 

www.mappingfutureimaginaries.com 

This global multidisciplinary network creates projects focused on our future lives and the world.