Abigail Rutter 

Abigail Rutter is a Canadian born Meanjin (Brisbane) based artist who’s practice involves a multidisciplinary approach to making. Rutter often incorporates mediums such as painting, installation, soft sculpture and mixed media as a mode of meditating on themes of collections, life cycles, traces of memory, and erasure, as well as preservation. It is Rutter's belief that people are connected through shared experiences and emotion, and that a sense of self can be derived from the objects we interact with in our daily life. When imbedded with a sense of sentimentality, such objects carry mnemonic abilities, offering individuals the opportunity to relive their memories, acting as an anchor in a world that is in a constant state of flux.