Feature Artist: Julie Macbean
Julie Macbean is a painter-printmaker living in Darlington, UK. Graduating with an MA in Fine Art from Teeside University in 2012, she is inspired by nostalgia and historical events; looking for the undesirable and the overlooked.
Julie's submission for the Personal Histories Exhibition 'Absent Voices' is based around Marianne Hirsh's 'Postmemory' and alludes to the inherited memories passed down from the generation before, bringing absent voices to life (especially pertinent at this time of year when we remember absent friends).
The images and intriguing snippets were found during a house clearance for a family member; and the book was put together by talking to family members and through internet research.
'Absent Voices' is a beautifully bound linen box of ephemera; containing hand printed and facsimile photographs on both loose and bound pages. Scrolls and facsimile vintage postcards housed in nooks and pockets make this a very interactive and interesting addition to the Personal Histories exhibition.
'Postmemory is not the recalling of a person's memory; it describes the relationship that the "generation after" bears to the personal collective, and cultural trauma of those who came before.
To be dominated by narratives that preceded one's birth or one's consciousness, is to grow up with overwhelming inherited memories, remembering only by means of stories and images.
These events happened in the past, but heir effects continue into the present."
Marianne Hirsch
ALL IMAGES COPYRIGHT OF THE ARTIST - JULIE MACBEAN
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