We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the people of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

VCA Art 2025

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture)

My installation explores and embodies a liminal space, a blurring of reality and psychosis, that seeks to amplify the space between memory and revisionist acts of remembering. A place where recollection is never static but is reshaped, reinterpreted, and even manipulated. The invisible weight of trauma and its lingering presence fracture time, identity, and narrative, which are at the heart of this work. A fragmentation of sorts that plays a counterpoint to the silencing and erasure it imposes. These are then metaphorically rendered through reenactment, performance and ritual with embodied gestures serving as a method for confronting the complexities of memory.

Erin Wigney

Erin Wigney, Installation view, 2025. Image courtesy of the University of Melbourne. Photography by Astrid Mulder.