Restricted Shores, 2022, installation view at the Cullity Gallery, Nedlands.

Brought up in a naval family, the sites of Garden Island and Cockburn Sound hold a rich history of experiences the artist was both present for and absent from. The coastline is mapped through an intuitive mode of making, where the process of creating is informed by the constant revisiting of personal and familial memories. Using hessian as a plane for commentary, her material explorations mimic those of her fathers, unveiling the site through a second generational lens. Working in addition with plaster and text, Posik’s focus on the physicality of the landscape evolves into a deeper connection with past family members. Incorporating her father’s speech in opposition with authoritative warnings, a dialogue between time past and the precarious nature of the future forms. An intimate trace of care and a trajectory towards healing, her recollection of his speech is hand stitched as a labour of love. Her relationship with the heavily industrialised site reaches beyond its physical entities, as an exploration into the co-existence of unbodied states appear. The work is hung as a fragment of a dismantled coastline, in the artist’s attempt to articulate a site woven with ambiguity.

Restricted Shores exemplifies a process of art making where spiritual bonds continue to form beyond the physical domain. Commenting on the human experience, this work honours the landscape she was raised upon, reconnecting her with memories of her past that inevitably inform her future.