..Freehold series..

no 1 - larger Work, on black plinth. 2017

Medium -soft formed cast concrete, white upper section, black concrete plinth.

no 2 - Smaller Work, on White plinth.2019

Medium -soft formed cast concrete with luminescent coating, white cast concrete plinth. 

Freehold draws on the loaded symbolism of the bunny to explore themes of colonialism, migration, and contested perspectives of land ownership. Cast in white concrete and mounted on a solid plinth, the work carries both innocence and unease.

The bunny—a creature associated with playfulness and childhood—doubles here as a metaphor for colonization: an introduced species, benign on the surface, yet capable of unchecked expansion and disruption. Referencing European settlement in Australia, the work contrasts the colonial notion of land as property with Indigenous understandings of land as a living entity—something to be cared for, not owned.

In choosing the white bunny as a stand-in for the settler, Freehold reflects on the entangled identities we carry as inhabitants of this land. Whether arriving generations ago or more recently, we are all, in some way, —part of the ongoing occupation and transformation of this place we now call home.

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