Mia Diamckie
Hospital, 2026
Graphite pencil, oil pastel, magazine sheets, advertisements, gel medium print transfers, sandpaper, wove paper, found steel surfaces
Dimensions variable
Artist statement
Hospital makes a link between material entropy and the incoherence of image archives over time. The work makes use of images from magazines, adverts, and iPhone albums, an amalgamation of mass and personal media that saturates real experience. The work seeks to damage this facade through drawing, transferring and distressing these images, techniques which emulate the ‘natural’ deterioration of found objects. A link is made between material loss of integrity and symbolic disarray, questioning if our image worlds, as phantom constructions, can ever have expiration dates.
Photographs: Anna Kucera
Acknowledgement of Country
UNSW School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.
We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
