In Pia Johnson’s new series of lens-based artworks, she continues to explore the house as a space of identity, belonging and shelter within the Australian bush landscape. An Uncertain Grasp forms part of the artist’s ongoing considerations of migration, transcultural identities and feminist narratives in contemporary Australia.

Situating herself within the context of female writers and artists who have explored the domestic realm of the house, this site-responsive series looks at one of the earliest homesteads built in Macedon, and the surrounding bush landscape of the Macedon Ranges. Johnson uses a phenomenological approach of ‘reading rooms’; where she places herself within the space to embody and render visible women’s stories across history. Her intimate artworks speak to the everyday and personal as much as the universal nuances of the human experience.