My show at Woolloongabba Art Gallery with Susan Leway, in August 2025 featured works that are derived from my current series of climate change investigations. Our mentor Glen O’Malley came up with the title to describe how our practices have things in common, and are distinct but complementary. We share a fascination with beauty in the everyday. While Susan has an eye for design and detail, particularly technological design, I like to layer things up and create stories and ambiguity. We both work to entice the viewer to contemplate something they might not have thought about much before.

Artist Statement – Judi Dransfield Kuepper

My images are a reflection on the fluid intersections between climate, memory, and family. The series began with flood-damaged photographs discovered after the 2022 deluge – ghostly, altered images that first appeared on the cover of After the Rain, an album released recently by my partner Ed Kuepper.

Transformed by water, mildew, and time, these photographs became starting points for a deeper exploration of personal history and environmental change. Layered with emotion, erosion, and echoes of the past, the works trace the quiet but far-reaching impact of both natural and emotional forces.

At once intimate and expansive,my work invites viewers to consider how memory and meaning survive, or shift, under pressure, and what legacies we leave in uncertain times.