The Useful Gap

05th August - 28 September 2025
The Capital Theatre Foyer
50 View Street, Bendigo
Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday & Sunday Closed, unless one hour prior to performance
Details on Bendigo Venue and Event

Artist Statement:
‘The gingerbread-man stands in the gingerbread house and silently screams — is he made of house? Or is the house made of him?’

I often look at pigeons and wonder if, due to humans, they have a similar identity crisis.

This collection of images explores the discarding of pigeons by humans once they no longer served a purpose, forever lingering in the empty space between domestication and wild. What emerges is a useful gap in which to exist.  

Pigeons are found throughout the world - a common sight in towns and cities. Watching pigeons has helped ground me when I stood in unfamiliar places. It doesn’t take much effort to find a pigeon.

I approached the creation of these artworks much like a flock of birds. Maintaining the common linking of the subject but using different styles and mediums to allow for the formation of an eclectic collection. The collection is made up of photographs, linocut, and intaglio prints created through dry point and solar plate etching. Each artwork is linked — through material or medium or both. Forming a chain with no clear start or finish, each link slowly changing over time, but forever coupled to what came before — much like our treatment of pigeons.