Keywords: ashley shepherd, australia, embroidered, new south wales, student, sydney, textile, university of new south wales, water soluble backing process, cotton, fabric, incense, water soluble fabric

White Guilt

Ashley Shepherd

Dimensions

3000 x 500 mm

Materials

Lace textile: cotton, machine embroidered on to water-soluble fabric and burnt with incense sticks

Artist statement

‘My skin is white. In many Australian communities and cities it is inappropriate and insulting, yet often inevitable to think of Aboriginal peoples separately. But when we do give in and reflect, compare or judge, our feelings confound and confront us. Guilt, fear, indifference, awe, pathos, frustration but, most blatantly, confusion.’