Alice Edy

Master of Fine Art

I work with text within a neo-conceptualist paradigm, investigating relationships between time, memory, language and mark-making. My research project comprises a collection of experiments. Across this body of work, I employed a range of processes, all engaging with text differently. One piece is an artist's book comprising of hundreds of pencil rubbings of the same word – ‘beloved’ – collected from the Melbourne General Cemetery over the course of 3 years. Another is a series of ephemeral paper monuments – typographic prints made using sun-damage. Each project explores how we try to make sense of the world using symbols and signs. Viewed together, these works investigate the act of writing as an unstable process of materialising thought.