Danica Chappell, Excerpt from ‘Colour Fall’, 2022

Danica Chappell lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne). Through a darkroom practice, Danica examines the intersecting paths of abstraction and the history of photography.  Distilling the malleability of a photograph, Danica orientates her work in cameraless methods, constructing shadows activated by the photogram. Light, shadow, form, colour and actions collide in the haptic darkroom and become fixed as both concrete and abstraction traces. Folding known conventions, the abstracted pictorial frame is an expression of cadence and light sensitive substrates.