Collection: Lindsay Hickling
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Lindsay Hickling (b.1997) is an Australian artist living and working on Gadigal land within Eora Country (Sydney,NSW). Lindsay Hickling’s interdisciplinary practice ranges from conceptual photography to mirror works and interactive installation. Lindsay's art is one of reflection and investigation, using her own life events and experience with dissociation and derealisation as well as other mental health conditions as inspiration for works that seek to unpack and explore experiences of mental health as well as activating the space between art and viewer.
There is a disconnect between the voyeurism of the viewer perceiving work, and the passive artwork being viewed. By activating this space with ultra sonic sensors that interact with the audience, Lindsay allows a reaction from the audience and challenges their active/passive relationship with her work.
Combining mirrors, mark making and motion sensing interactive engineering, her works draw on ideas from phenomenology and existentialism. By using the reflection of her own self in the mirror to create lines, she creates a process of self reflection whilst guiding viewers to interact with similar themes in themselves. Her works create a visual vocabulary for much needed discourse around the effects of mental health as well as the fears around grasping ideas of a changing reality and the self.
