Image credit: Jemima Wyman ‘Haze 20’, 2024, hand-cut digital photographs, 118.5 x 158 cm. Photography by Ed Mumford, courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf.

Sullivan+Strumpf (Gadigal Land/Sydney) presents Jemima Wyman ‘Atmospheric Disturbances’, bringing together the artist’s most psychedelic hand-cut digital photo collages to date.

Forming nebulous landscapes (or smokescapes), Wyman’s ‘Haze’ works mimic the abstract shapes found in camouflage textiles, while the ‘Declassified’ series use photographic off-cuts, appearing to zoom in on historical events of protest and resistance. Collectively, these works consider protest smoke as a cloud to be contemplated, like a weather event; a gauge of disturbances past, present and future Swirling and ominous, charged with searing colour, through them we are made aware of the biosphere we inhabit today.

Wyman is a Palawa woman, with Paternal descendants from the Pairrebeener people of Tebrakunna and Poredareme. She has maternal descendants from England. This month, her first survey exhibition ‘Crisis Patterns’ will open on Friday 18 October at Artspace Mackay (Yuwi Country/Mackay, Queensland). The artist lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.