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Judith Nangala Crispin Lecture
October 2, 5:00 PM
THE DINGO’S NOCTUARY
How does photography become a bond with the Earth and with memory? Australian artist Judith Nangala Crispin will present lumachrome glass prints—one-of-a-kind, large-format works in which lumen printing, cliché-verre, chemigrams, drawing, and painting converge. IPMA visitors will have a unique chance to see her original prints and meet the artist herself, who will be in Lithuania for just two days.
“The Dingo’s Noctuary” grew out of Judith’s relationship with two First Nations communities—Bpangerang (from which her family line descends) and Warlpiri, with whom she has worked for more than two decades. Using a set of methods she devised herself—from lumen printing and cliché-verre to chemigrams and hand drawing/painting on glass—she creates lumachrome prints from materials belonging to Country: ochre, branches, grass, even animals found dead. Images born through long exposures in natural light become rituals of honoring local animals and birds killed on the roads, an attempt to reconcile with lost heritage, and a way to learn how to properly honor the dead. In the lecture, the artist will open up her process, ethical and ecological choices, and share how her technique links photography, painting, and the material memory of the Earth.