Resonance
2022
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by Scott Livesey Galleries, 2023
© Joshua Yeldham
- Gallery location
- Not on display
About this work
This intricately detailed image is of a grey mangrove tree on the Hawkesbury River, NSW. Joshua Yeldham has made art with this tree for sixteen years. He states that the old tree – maybe 150 years old – did not speak to him as a photograph. Yeldham said, ‘It was foreign as an image on paper. It was separate to me and I wanted it to be me’. To ‘become’ mangrove, Yeldham carved the surface of the image with a Dremel tool, letting the tip of the grinder meander up through the bark over and over, as a meditation. Each touch of the Dremel brought light. Yeldham explains, ‘I’m starting to make an offering. I’m starting to find illumination and reverence in something that I didn’t fully connect to, which was just a static image. And then I felt it was vulnerable, so I made strings that are holding it together, in case a storm comes. To care and bind’.
Artwork Details
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.l.: Resonance (underlined) / Yeldham / 8/9 / 22
Presented by Scott Livesey Galleries, 2023
© Joshua Yeldham