I’m gathering old family photos and collage materials in preparation for my Artist_in-Residency at the Butter Factory Arts Centre. Whilst this will be a tribute to my mother, it is also documents the many roles of women, the changing images of twentieth century women, their struggles and tensions in navigating change.

The idea arose when I came across some old photos last year and started talking to photographer and friend Craig Holmes. We got together to select photos to reproduce. Craig brought a technical and creative eye to the process of selection. He made digital masters of the selected family photos, some of which were very small, with the oldest taken in the early 1930’s.

A high quality scanner in the hands of a skilled photographer yielded spectacular images. We were both surprised at the amount of detail contained in some of the images that had not been captured when the photos were developed manually.