Peta Tranquille
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Peta Tranquille is a Melbourne-based, award winning, multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the fragility of memory, identity, and perception. Drawing from a long career in cartography and her lived experience with Aphantasia—the inability to visualise—Peta creates thoughtful, often structured works that reflect the challenge of recalling what cannot be seen
Cloud Cover
2025, Timber, artist pigment, photography and 35mm vintage slides.
30.5 x 30.5 x 7cm
$700
My submission reflects the way memory fractures and fades in the absence of mental imagery. Through a grid of blackened forms, each fragment presents a trace of a winter journey—overcast skies, distant architecture, and recognisable places now obscured by time and the limits of recall.
The shifting scale of the cubes suggests a disordered archive, where no moment is more whole than the next, yet each carries a certain weight. With Aphantasia, memory becomes non-visual: stored without images, recalled without clarity. Like a thick clouded sky, the scenes depicted remain unreachable—flattened into surface and shape.
This work speaks to the personal tension of holding photographic evidence without the ability to re-enter the moment. It is an arrangement of memory as object, not as experience—an atmosphere rather than a story.