Mia Hacker - Original 'Great Grandma Fry'
Researching more about Alice and re connecting with her resting place has been very impacting. I understand more about her and the times she lived in in Brisbane growing up in and around Fortitude Valley, New Farm, Hawthorne and Kangaroo Point. Putting myself into her shoes and revisiting places that she would have walked was very powerful.
Natural inks, pigments and ochre with harvested charcoal
27cm x 42cm
Not For Sale
Mia Hacker - Original 'Gladys: A Scott of Buccleuch'
Researching more about Gladys and talking to her 96yr old Niece was an absolute highlight. I understand more about her and the impacts she had on Brisbane community growing up in and around Ascot, Clayfield, Lindum near Wynnum. I sit at her silky oak Dining table with my family now and we talk more and more about our family lines and about the women of the past. Finding links to Scotland and the strong women that she and her sisters and mother were.
Natural inks, pigments and ochre with harvested charcoal
27cm x 42cm
Not for Sale
Mia Hacker
I am an artist that explores place. Making observations of natural elements changing and then making my own mark making, design, layering and processing of natural elements to express my connection and immersion of place. Thinking about seasonal changes and shadows and the lines of light that move and effect other facets of place. The quiet of being in the bush is pleasing to my creative process. Research and Questioning highlight through my exploring and planning phases of artwork creations. I have used these skills to develop the portraits of women from the past in family that are being shared in this exhibition. I also enjoy post processing technology to take some images and artworks to another level of complexity. This can lead to projection artworks also.
For the last two years I have been researching and exploring to reconnect with some aspects of lost connection, experience and difference that the Women in my family lines have made in what we now call Queensland, New South Wales and Australia as the new country that is today.
Working with and being mentored by Dr. Tamsin Kerr, in a one year Arts Residency at Cooroora Institute I have created portraits as the re-connection strings of knowledge have been re-kindled. Connection to place has developed alongside the growing family knowledge as well. What the Women before have done to allow for contemporary connection to places that I find myself in.
