Towel
By Rebecca Dagnall
Artist Bio
Working predominantly in the medium of photography, Boorloo Perth-based artist and lecturer Rebecca Dagnall was born in Naarn Melbourne in 1972, six months after her parents immigrated to Australia. After graduating from Curtin University with Honours in 2003, Rebecca held her first solo exhibition in 2009. She has since been invited to show around Australia and internationally. In 2018 Rebecca was awarded a PhD from RMIT University. 
 
Rebecca Dagnall's work explores the relationship between people and place, looking to the natural world to examine the Australian psyche. Her dark and unsettling images create a sense of unease and discomfort that invites the viewer to question their own relationship with the land we inhabit. Often haunting, Dagnall's work sits within the field of the Australian Gothic. Scattered amongst expansive landscape works are the poignant yet somehow beautiful images of dead animals that challenge our assumptions about life, death, and the environment.
 
 Rebecca Dagnall is currently represented by Art Collective WA
Artist Statement / Description of artwork
This series is an exploration of how the Australian Gothic haunts our response to the Australian landscape. Drawing on contemporary and familiar imagery of the Australian bush, the images in this series harbor suggestions of dingoes stealing babes and travelers murdered. Through such gothic imagery I explore how removing ourselves from our known surroundings can leave us in metaphorical as well as physical darkness.