WILLOWA
A CARTER

Self Portrait - Reflections on my complexities

Self Portrait – Reflections on my Complexities, starting several years ago as an assortment of crochet pieces/journals I would create as I traveled my journey of treatments and specialist. Binding these pieces has become a process of reflection, acceptance of physical abilities, moods and emotions.

Butarica's, The making of - Binding words and stories (My Blood, My Body)

Act three from a four part performance work for Cementa24 Arts festival in Kandos, September 2024. Reflecting on my childhood working with the nuns creating Butaricas as an offering. Created from dried, upcycled teabags.

Finding my mark - Walking Mind 1 (Intergenerational Trauma)

Walking Mind 1 is from a series of works reflecting my paternal traits. Whilst my father was traveling through a extremely difficult period in his fifties. He often turned to walking as a release. In this series I'm exploring by mapping out my walking trails. Mapping out habitual patterns, sequences during my stays at residencies. This is one of seven pieces create from my Kandos, February residency 2024 stay. This work is under a larger topic of work title Intergenerational Trauma.

Chainstitch (Intergenerational Trauma)

Intergenerational Trauma is a larger body of work. I'm current working through understanding family embedded trauma, as well as cultural/social trauma. This piece 'Chainstitch' is a reflection based on my relationship with my mother and myself. Our repetitive behavioral patterns and struggles to change them. The similarities, differences, stripped back and the reinvention of set boundaries.

Which - an overlay to my obsession

Which - an overlay to my obsession

Which - an overlay to my obsession

Exhibit "Space YZ" Campbelltown Arts Centre (CAC)

On the Seventh Day - performance (Intervention)

Installation at CAC for a program Intervention of the exhibition, "Space YZ"

Lost Ancestor - Masculine (Intergenerational Trauma)

This work looks into the Native American Indian in my bloodline. I created this dual-sided Re'kleimme, both masculine and feminine as I am unaware of which side this bloodline derives from. On this masculine side, stitching indicates lines of travel and battles.

Lost ancestor - Feminine (Intergenerational Trauma)

This work looks into the Native American Indian in my bloodline. I created this dual-sided Re'kleimme, both masculine and feminine as I am unaware of which side this bloodline derives from. On this feminine side, stitching indicates the womb and birth.

Not forgotten Re'kleimmes (ReNew)

ReNew Exhibition, Annexe space, The Foundation, Portland.

Not forgotten Re'Kleimmes (ReNew)

ReNew exhibition, Annexe, The Foundation, Portland Waste to Art, Lithgow, and regional.

Feelings are not real - performance (ReNew)

ReNew exhibition, Annexe, The Foundation, Portland

Sensory artwork range

Late 2017 I was diagnosed with IIH. In 2021 opportunity of a group exhibition gave wave to creating my DPMB aid brooches to assist me with my hypersensitivities during this exhibition. Later that year I created the Re'Kleimme, a duel sensory aid too which has personal assisted myself and others through difficult times. For more, click on my sensory website link.

Waste Turmoil - Pacifica

This work came about after my visit to the Pacific Islands of Hawaii. The Hawaiians have a saying; E lei no au I ko aloha. Translated into English; I will be crowned with your love. Waste Turmoil - Pacifica reflects the westernized consumerism that is overtaking these islands and their traditional culture. The commercialization of westernizing culture and the encroaching pacific ring of plastic waste.

11072014 Osteology (Classification)

Waste to Art - open prize Medium: Bone, linen, cotton, wire, paper, and foil. 11072014 Osteology is a part of a larger body of work called "Classification". This work reflects my mother's essence, as a seamstress, lace maker, her passion for flowers, and her demise, bone cancer. Classification signifies points of time and reasons of a death that have occurred in my lifespan. The work portrays the persona and the interaction between both myself and the person that had physically died.

In which we see (Self portrait collection)

A collection of over 2000 teabags, 2000 conversations over a period of 8 months. In which we see is a self portrait of my iris.

Princess and the pea (Death, Cycles and the lines between)

2018 Death, Cycles, and the lines between, Lithgow Learning Centre and Library, Lithgow Displayed in Campbelltown on a stack of bricks with a scattering of capsules stating, 'pick me! Eat me!' The work reference the growing concern of acceptance of medication that is currently in our society. (Image) Displayed in Lithgow, the work is hung in an accordion style, with a button.

They lay (Death, Cycles and the lines between)

They lay, the acknowledged markings of battle. 2018 Death, Cycles, and the lines between, Lithgow Learning Centre and Library, Lithgow

Family Traits - offspring (Dream Catches)

A two-part body of work reviewing the repetition of habits passed down in generations. The parent, a double mattress, is suspended above, laying horizontally while the offspring, a cot mattress suspended at the foot of the double.

My Blood (Dream catchers)

My Blood was part of a body of work titled 'Dream Catches'. Dream catchers, installed for 2014 Sculptures at Scenic World art prize.

Coral

2018 Death, Cycles, and the lines between, Lithgow Learning Centre and Library, Lithgow

Slides series - Who I am

Slides - 1908 -64/72 are a series of skin images taken from past lovers.

Slide 1-6 exposed

As part of my graduation work, leading off the Wollongong solo exhibition 'Awaiting the last breath'.

Awaiting the last breath - lightbox 'Crucifixion'

Awaiting the last breath exhibition = Wollongong Regional Art Gallery

Awaiting the last breath - lightbox 'He sees'

Awaiting the last breath exhibition = Wollongong Regional Art Gallery

Awaiting the last breath

Wire installation sculpture at Wollongong Regional Art Gallery

Fraction of Time Part 1

Six-part sculptural installation Fishers Ghost Art Prize Campbelltown Arts Centre Emerging Artist Prize