KATE GOLDING | NEAR THIS SPOT

Arcade is pleased to present Kate Golding's exhibition, 'Near this spot'.

In the Middlesborough suburb of Marton, a large granite urn marks the approximate location of the cottage in which James Cook was born. Similarly, on the island of Hawai‘i, at the edge of Kealakekua Bay, a decaying monument memorialises that “Near this spot” the death of Captain James Cook occurred. This marking of the land ensures that a particular story is privileged. Over time, the natural elements are slowly reclaiming and decolonising the landscape by degrading the monuments. The artist took inspiration from nature to remove the monuments from the photographic prints. This rupturing of the surface of the physical prints transforms the intrinsic indexical nature of the photograph and creates a potential space for non-dominant narratives to emerge.

Kate Golding is an artist based in Narrm Melbourne who utilises photographic processes to examine colonisation while reflecting critically on her Anglo settler heritage. Currently undertaking a Master of Fine Arts by Research degree at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, her research project focuses on First Nation sovereignty and questions the historical narratives signified through colonial monuments.

Golding exhibits both nationally and internationally, and last year was the winner of the 2016 Linden Postcard Show and the Best Work by a CCP Member award at the 2016 Centre for Contemporary Photography Salon.

The artist acknowledges the First Nations of the Woiwurrung and Boon Wurrung on whose land this exhibition takes place. Kate offers her respect to the elders past, present and future and extends this respect to all First Nations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, acknowledging that sovereignty has never been ceded.

Exhibition details:
Opening Wed June 28th - 6-9pm
continues to July 15th