Julie Visible: The Carousel of Invisibility
鈥楾he Carousel of Invisibility鈥� is an evocative interpretation across the life of the female bushranger Jessie Hickman. Seeking to unearth and reveal the elusive Hickman, visual artist Julie Visible (aka Julie Williams) ventures into isolated bushland along the fringes of the Wollemi region, where she encounters traces and murmurs of Hickman鈥檚 life. This body of work is a reflection upon human inhabitation, identity and the invisible history of women.
Visible messes with linear time by deconstructing and reassembling analogue photography, digital video, smatterings of AI, sounds from the bush and found objects retrieved from the ground. The layered imagery within her painterly, photo-media works imbues a subtle sense of unreality. Natural objects, people, horses and a baby become symbols; depicting fragments and impressions of the lightness and darkness of the lingering apparitions within the bushland frequented by Hickman in the early 1900s.
Visible passes over the contradictory and disjointed narratives that abound around Hickman鈥檚 life, in favour of a light filled transcendence of flight and movement. It is here that Julie Visible and Jessie Hickman fall together in time, enabling the spirit of place to slowly and quietly endow their stories with imagination within a regional contemporary arts framework.
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鈥楾he Carousel of Invisibility鈥� is an evocative interpretation across the life of the female bushranger Jessie Hickman. Seeking to unearth and reveal the elusive Hickman, visual artist Julie Visible (aka Julie Williams) ventures into isolated bushland along the fringes of the Wollemi region, where she encounters traces and murmurs of Hickman鈥檚 life. This body of work is a reflection upon human inhabitation, identity and the invisible history of women.
Visible messes with linear time by deconstructing and reassembling analogue photography, digital video, smatterings of AI, sounds from the bush and found objects retrieved from the ground. The layered imagery within her painterly, photo-media works imbues a subtle sense of unreality. Natural objects, people, horses and a baby become symbols; depicting fragments and impressions of the lightness and darkness of the lingering apparitions within the bushland frequented by Hickman in the early 1900s.
Visible passes over the contradictory and disjointed narratives that abound around Hickman鈥檚 life, in favour of a light filled transcendence of flight and movement. It is here that Julie Visible and Jessie Hickman fall together in time, enabling the spirit of place to slowly and quietly endow their stories with imagination within a regional contemporary arts framework.
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