Much of my artwork centres around water, both as a purely representational form and as a metaphor for various influences on my art. This work is part of an ongoing series I have been working through the last couple of years called Coastliners which is based around my childhood spent living on the northern central coast of Queensland. It ties together thoughts and feelings about my inherited sense of place, longing for belonging and the feelings of being displaced and uprooted – swept away. I am slowly finding that rather than a specific piece of land being identified as home, it is actually the proximity to water which engenders this response in me.

This work particularly explores my current position living away from my childhood home and the unravelling of my connections with that place in the face of prolonged living in a new location - trying to stitch together a new sense of place. The cyanotypes (which are a light sensitive print out process involving the use of water to develop the print) were made using the water from a local source and the visual material was taken from images drawn and photographed in childhood settings.

Jay Dee is a printmaker who travels extensively and specialises in techniques that cross photography and printmaking; reflecting an interest in place and how we interact with the environments around us. She teaches printmaking and runs a studio/gallery space called Myrtle Street Studio.