Priscilla Lam

Ravenswood School for Girls

SIGNAL LOST

Printmaking

Monotype print on paper, phone cases

As a teenager I see how constant screen use among adolescents fragments reality, so my intention in Signal Lost was to parallel the emotional impact of contemporary isolation through digital addiction with the disorientation of early Australian settlers. In my body of work I combined etched laser-cut phone cases - representing dependence - with monotype printmaking, fragmented compositions and reversed prints of blurred child figures and moody bushland to convey vulnerability and loss. My work recontextualises national imagery to critique modern disconnection, encouraging the audience to reflect on our digital habits and to reconnect with nature.

My artmaking practice has been influenced by the study and interpretation of the following artists: Fredrick McCubbin, The Lost Child; Lloyd Rees, Spring at Lane Cove, Aden; Arthur Streeton, Butterflies and Blossoms, Windy and Wet, Evening Game, Still glides the stream, and shall for ever glide; Tom Roberts, Fog, Thames Embankment, Evening Train to Hawthorn; Charles Conder, Dandenongs from Heidelberg; Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise; JMW Turner, Moonlight on Lake Lucerne with the Rigi in the Distance; Pablo Picasso; Philip Wolfhagen, A Painter's Landscape X; HEGO, Zeitgeist; Natalie Anderson, Antipodean Winter; Richard Claremont; Julian Meagher.