Everywhere and Nowhere: Tracing Collective Memory marks Penelope Blunsden's debut solo exhibition, a body of work exploring the ephemeral landscapes of memory and personal histories. Drawing on family archives - carefully selected film slides, disposable camera sleeves, and digital photographs - Blunsden crafts a quiet meditation on how memories are stored, revisited, and reshaped over time. 

To stand before these works is to witness a deeply personal yet universally resonant act of remembrance - a glimpse into the shifting terrain of memory. They speak to the emotional distance between a real landscape, a photograph, and a memory; between lived experience and longing. Her small-scale works intimately depict ambiguous landscapes, removed of recognisable figures. These distant places seem almost escapist - an act of yearning for a memory that is both anywhere and nowhere. 

Exhibition hours

• Weekdays: 11am - 6pm
• Weekends: 10am - 5pm
• Closed: Mon 1 Dec & Tue 2 Dec

Programs

• Opening event, Fri 28 Nov, 6pm - 9pm
• Artist talk, Sun 30 Nov, 1pm - 3pm 

Proudly supported by Northern Beaches Council.

Exhibition sponsors: Beyond the Glass Wines, Heaps Normal, Coles Local Newport.

About the artist

Penelope Blunsden graduated from the National Art School with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2021. Blunsden has been involved in several group shows: most notably the National Art School’s BFA Graduate Exhibition (2022), as a finalist in the Clyde and Co Art Award (2022), the Fifty Squared Art Prize at Brunswick Street Gallery (2023) and This Must be the Place at 25B Gallery Darlinghurst (2024). 

In 2024 Blunsden was awarded a spot in Studio Kura’s artist in residence program, where she lived and worked in rural Itoshima, Japan, culminating in a group show with her body of work Familiar Skies, Unfamiliar Lands. From 2024-25, Blunsden has worked from Avalon Creative Space under the Northern Beaches Studios program. Blunsden was awarded an Arts & Creativity Grant  2024/25 by Northern Beaches Council to support Blunsden's debut solo exhibition at Curl Curl Creative Space.