Sarah Cutbush, 'Glynis at home'
59.4 x 84.1 cm
Medium Format Film Photograph
Edition 1/1 
NFS
 
Hidden behind the mountains and fog, a landscape previously overlooked reappears within Hidden Valley. Created as an act of connection between artist and community, the work serves to forge new space within the archive for the town of Tamborine. Through quiet landscapes and intimate portraits, this body of work explores the poetics of life in rural Queensland, serving as a document of both artist and town. 
 
 
Sarah Cutbush is a recent graduate of RMIT, Melbourne. Her practice focuses heavily on how contemporary documentary photography can be used to bridge gaps between communities and archives. Her undergraduate series Hidden Valley focused on her hometown of Tamborine's absence from the community archive. Through this work, Cutbush both forged new space for Tamborine, as well as connecting to her community that she had long felt disconnected from. 
 
Her Honours project, Mirror, looked at spatial and temporal analogies connected to the body and memory - questioning how photography and moving image could be used to make memory communicable.