Maps of Being XXII

by Melinda Hunt
Submitted: September 3, 2025

Artist Statement

Maps of Being XXII, 2025

Living and working on Gadigal Country, my experimental drawing practice explores forms of thinking, feeling and knowing. I draw while walking as a strategy that brings perception and visualisation to the fore. My drawings are not about things or places or myself but about the relational space between them and the energy created in the interstitial. Walking mostly at night without a prescribed route, I am a human seismograph. I draw with both hands while wearing a harness to hold my drawing board and carrying drawing materials in my pockets. The marks I make are unmediated, an affirmation of my sensorial attentiveness and presence in the world.

Note:Maps of Being XXII references smaller drawings made while walking late at night on Enmore Road, Newtown.

Entry Details

Year Completed: 2025
Size / Dimensions cm: 70 x 91 cm
Materials / Mediums: Acrylic, pastel and charcoal on drafting film
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