Remain
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This glass panel, crafted from found glass, mirror, copper foil, and solder, invites us to consider what endures—what lingers despite time, change, or loss.
This work holds tension between fragility and strength, presence and absence. It reflects traces of the past and the quiet power of what refuses to disappear, shaped by the forces that have acted upon it.
Assembled through copper foiling and soldering, the work transforms discarded fragments, emphasising repair and honoring what remains. The process itself embodies resourcefulness—reclaiming history while imagining new possibilities.
Look closer. Notice what is often overlooked. The quiet persistence of things left behind, the pieces we carry—consciously or not. What is it that remains?
Alice Boardman is an artist currently living in Rubibi / Broome on Yawuru Country in the West Kimberley of Australia. Born in Naarm on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri) people of the Kulin Nation, Alice holds a Diploma of Arts from Swinburne University of Technology and an Advanced Diploma of Art Therapy.
She has worked with people to utilise art as an avenue for self-expression and improved wellbeing within education, community, youth justice and health service contexts.
A multidisciplinary Artist with her recent works focusing on glass. She begins her creative process with tuning into relational elements of her everyday life; to other humans, her surroundings, and the landscape. Her art acts as an avenue of coming back to herself. A remembering, and an invitation to curiosity. Curiosity is an important element of how she generates new work - experieantial rather than methodical. She writes and thinks through symbols and metaphors.
Drawn to the alchemy of found glass pieces, questions arise- what is their story? How did it come to change form by chance? What about its surroundings made it come to this particular lustre? They represent the metaphor for our own experience in life - how have we been passively shaped by our relationships and our surroundings? How did we come to be the shape we are? To have our own unique form and our own story? When something breaks, it is changed forever. Shape, structure, form and function may all be affected. But the way it is put back together - the bonds forged to fix it - become as important and a part of its new incarnation, as its older parts. This is the fitting together part of her process, the amalgamation and reforming of separate pieces of glass, of adjoining panels, the soldering together.
59 cm x 28 cm x 1 cm 59 cm x 28 cm x 1 cm
Glass, mirror, reclaimed glass, solder, chain
