'I am a Yorta Yorta artist living and working on Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Country in Naarm. The starting point for the series of photographs, Fissures in Time, was researching archival records of massacres of Aboriginal people in Victoria. Acknowledging that a single photograph—or any photograph, for that matter—cannot convey the horror of the violence that has occurred throughout Country in Australia, I began working with and on Country, exploring a collaborative and performative process. By returning to Country with photographs of Country and rephotographing them at the same place, I aimed to create layered images that evoke multiple time frames, perspectives, histories, and cultural memory. Furthermore, my photographs respond to historical images of landscape, place, and Country that often frame Country as an object to capture or obtain. I am interested in exploring other ways of knowing Country through photography.’ – Artist's statement.

Dr Peta Clancy
Dr Peta Clancy (Yorta Yorta) is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Dr Clancy is currently a researcher in the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous practice-based research lab at Monash Art, Design and Architecture (MADA), Monash University. In 2022 she was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship. Dr Clancy has undertaken numerous collaborative exhibition projects and residencies nationally and internationally and is represented by Dominik Mersch Gallery.