Carrier
By Jane Finlay
Artist Bio
Jane Finlay is an Australian interdisciplinary artist and photographer living and working on unceded Noongar Whadjuk boodja, Boorloo, WA whose work has been exhibited and published since 1996. 
 
Conceptual research driven explorations of site, materials and matter frame her creative practice. Working across photography, sculpture, drawing and installation Finlay draws from an interdisciplinary practice to document, research and interrogate the strange, questionable observations of lived experience. 
 
She is interested in the language of of photography and image-making and draws her creative output from multiples sources of inspiration. Process, disruption, experimentation and documentation are essential to her creative practice.
 
Finlay regards the camera as a tool for documenting and creatively probing mediated constructions of narrative and context and the photographic medium including evolving screen-based and AI technology as essential thresholds for imaginatively exploring experiences of human and nonhuman consciousness.
Artist Statement / Description of artwork
This digital composite, part of the artist's series Extinctions II, was inspired by a dream-memory that spurred an exploration of hybridised species within a museum context. Through this work, the artist examines colonial constructs that impose arbitrary borders and categories, critiquing the ways these systems divide and classify. The piece raises questions about how radical approaches in museology could transform public exhibitions, collections, and archives, ultimately challenging and dismantling inherited colonial frameworks to foster new understandings of art and culture beyond western imperial narratives.