What if the weeds beneath your feet told the story of survival? In An Echo of Small Things, the unremarkable becomes extraordinary, as overlooked flora and quiet figures intertwine to illuminate our shared capacity for adaptation and endurance.
Kerr’s work captures moments of human unease and vulnerability, offering a visual meditation on personal and environmental change. Created during a period of personal transition, these works reflect transformation and growth – where days are measured in walking, observing, traveling and painting. Each work captures the passage of time and maps shifting terrains that are at once familiar and new.
Drawing on diverse resource material photographed around her changing studio environment, Kerr transforms fragments of the every-day into imagined landscapes, evoking a sense of place rather than a specific geography. Kerr’s major artwork Liminal, finds inspiration in the native flora and fauna surrounding her former urban studio while a suite of smaller pieces reflect the rural landscape and invasive species that line local roadsides near her new home.
Botanical images—drawn from weeds collected during her daily walks—are intricately woven throughout the series. Wild carrot, earth-smoke, dandelion, and hemlock serve as her meditation on resilience and the artist’s fascination with the power of adaptation. These often-dismissed species serve as metaphors for persistence and the capacity to adapt in unfavourable circumstances. By incorporating invasive plants, Kerr repositions them as agents of survival, celebrating their ability to flourish in adverse conditions while challenging conventional hierarchies of beauty and value.
Across the series, Kerr balances the tension and interplay between visibility and concealment, endurance and transformation. In an increasingly mercurial world, An Echo of Small Things captures the acceptance of change and the duality of belonging and dislocation.
Exhibiting November 6 - 29
