"...Ashes! Ashes! is an exhibition grounded in the materials of charcoal, beeswax, paper and wool combined with printed gestures of cutting, redrawing, and wiping away. As I reflect on the 14 houses that I have moved in and out of over the last decade, I turn to drawing as both an archival and speculative practice. The works exhibited here trace both real memories and imagined scenarios of these homes and the 25 people I shared them with, manipulating the images through techniques of monotype, collagraph, and mokulito to reveal themes of comfort, deterioration, and repair..."
Margaret Joba-Woodruff is a visual artist whose practice employs an interdisciplinary approach to printmaking to consider the intersections of land, body, family, memory, and labour.