Exhibition: Being In The Land – Robyn Moore

What is the connection between personal experience and biological memory? Landscapes change, move, uplift, and erode. Where does the individual find herself within the scope of natural history?

Landscapes embody memory in a physical way: both the footprint and the fossil show us how living things leave traces in the land in ways that endure and communicate. 

But the land is also home to the spectral and the invisible. How can we connect with the beings and forces in the land that remain unseen?

‘The land calls me to respond. In my desperation to materialize this feeling of so many others in the land, I wrap myself in a silver emergency blanket and photograph myself during long photographic exposures, which creates luminous corporeal forms. For me, each image becomes both an experiment in self-portraiture and evocation of the numinous other, more-than-human beings and forces that dwell there.’ Robyn Moore.

Gold Street Studios & Gallery. Trentham East. Victoria until 15 October 2025

Robyn Moore holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney (2017) and an MFA in photography and experimental film from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (2002). Robyn is currently an Associate Professor of Photography at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky.

Robyn has had her work exhibited widely, including at the South Australian Museum (Adelaide, SA, Australia) and the National Archives of Australia; Sydney College of the Arts in Sydney, Australia; FotoNostrum Gallery in Barcelona, Spain; the Centre for Print Research in Bristol, England; Bradbury Art Museum at Arkansas State University; Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY.