Marla-Sunshine Kellard-Jones

Kellard-Jones' practise centres and explores death, grief, memorial, and her personal relationship to them through sculptural, text-based and audio work. Her work activates the longing that accompanies mourning. The process used to construct her sculptures is central to imbuing their importance as receptacles of people, experiences and inherited objects.

There is an enmeshment of the experience of loss with the collective societal sentimentality and sadness that comes from experiencing a death. Sound and light also exist within Kellard-Jones' sculptures, as a means of activating memory. Her relationship to objects, especially the inherited, follows an animistic belief, with the objects existing as beings, replacing the dead.