The Kedumba Drawing Collection was started in 1990 and embodies and reflects all the elements of outstanding drawing created in Australia over more than 50 years and has acquired almost two hundred drawings.

I was fortunate enough to have my work “ Looking In, Seeing Out - Bundanon” acquired for this collection

The subject of my work depicts
myself almost as a voyeur peering from the outside through the glass windows of the The Bundanon Homestead during my recent residency. Capturing both inside and the surrounding landscape in the one frame, as a play on reflections, allows the internal foyer and staircase to fuse seamlessly with the mountains and trees. My technique of mark making, formed intuitively over time, evokes the fragility of remembering by creating a blurring of focus and the slowing of viewing time. The drawn line also relates to the concept of memory consisting of a mass of marks designated into what we have seen, heard and felt.

May Space Gallery 20 March to 6 April

In Light on Nostalgia, Peta Minnici explores the emotional resonance of memory through still life and interior-based compositions. Anchored in personal history, each painting is drawn from objects, photographs, and places that serve as vessels of recollection. Rather than offering a direct representation, Minnici’s use of delicate brushwork and nuanced colour seeks to fragment the image — dissolving form into tonal impressions that evoke the atmospheric nature of remembrance.

These works are not simply depictions, but quiet records of lived experience. Each mark operates both symbolically and sensorily — a meditation on what has been seen, felt, and held. The series was prompted by the recent loss of a figure central to the artist’s life, whose presence continues to haunt and shape the narrative structure of the work.

Balancing wistfulness with restraint, Minnici offers a vision of nostalgia imbued with tenderness, intimacy, and occasional irony — never collapsing fully into melancholy.