Aletheia Casey. A Lost Place (Wiradjrui Country). Limited Edition.
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16 X 20 inches
24 X 30 inches
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About the Work
This work is a very personal reaction to the climate emergency, in particular to the Australian fires which almost destroyed my family home. Although we have not experienced the ferocity of the 2019/2020 bushfires this year, the threat is ever present. This work uses my own archival images, and, through painting, scratching, and reworking, reimagines the landscapes of my childhood home, now with the threat of environmental devastation. The interference of my brushstrokes on the prints became a mirror of human intervention in nature, my own hand attempting to control the uncontrollable.
About the Photographer
Aletheia Casey is an Australian photographic artist based in London. Her work is concerned with environmental issues and post-colonial legacy, alongside personal themes around family and the notion of home. Aletheia was the winner of the World Press Award for Southeast Asia and Oceania (Open Category) in 2024, and in the same year Aletheia was shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Prize.
In 2022 Aletheia won the Environment category of the Australian Photography Awards, and in 2021 won the Head On Landscape Award. She was named '31 photographers to watch' by the British Journal of Photography and was shortlisted for the PHMuseum Woman Photographer's Grant. Aletheia won the Judge's Commendation for the Iris Award at the Perth Centre for Photography and was a finalist for the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Award. She has twice been a finalist for the National Photographic Portrait Prize
Aletheia has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Museum Bélvédère (Holland), The Perth Centre for Photography (Australia), The National Geographic Society (London), The Australian Centre for Photography and The Art Gallery of Ballarat (Australia), among others.
Aletheia is a senior lecturer and the Course Leader on the Masters of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication, UAL.
Follow Aletheia Casey on Instagram @aletheiacasey
