Taya Corrigan

As a female, white, Australian artist, interrogating place and identity through art; my relationship to the land from which I draw so much, is central to my practice. In my works I explore how expanded photographic, drawing and sculptural processes, utilising archival and found materials, the body and site, can interrogate relationships between self and place. My recent practise focuses on disrupting illusory narratives of connection to land prevalent in colonial histories of Australia, and engages with contemporary dialogues of self and place. Through the recontextualising of materials from archival western architecture, my works introduce visual discourses reflecting on colonial legacies of ownership of the land in the contemporary, recognising the need to evaluate contemporary Australian identity in relation to place.