Zoe Maxwell

Zoe Maxwell’s practice explores the vagaries of memory, through her paintings she stretches the distance between memory and accuracy. Focusing on a reconfiguration of recollection over reproducing the past.

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Maxwell’s paintings aim to question the reliability of recollection, doubting the truth we project onto captured image. In each piece she brings a focus as to how time and experience is marked and stored within the painted surface.

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Illusive scenes anchored to a reality are constructed as past, present and hypothetical futures are intwined within the paintings. Maxwell incites viewers to question the veracity of recollection in a playful and imaginative way as she constructs confabulations that sit between the possibilities of what was, what could have been and potentially what could be.