Hear from Pat Hoffie and Lillian O’Neil in conversation with Izabela Pluta, as they discuss their new works in the exhibition ‘All the World’s Memories’.
This program is part of ‘Artist to Artist’, a series of conversations bringing together practitioners with shared interests and material concerns. This discussion considers the production and circulation of images across historical and contemporary approaches to photography and printmaking.
Pat Hoffie’s interdisciplinary practice addresses themes of power and postcolonial legacies through centring aspects of human experience. Her new body of work responds to the social mediatisation of the conflict in Gaza, while invoking printmaking’s historical role in bearing witness to violence and injustice.
Lillian O’Neil works with found photographic material from pre-digital books to create large-scale, analogue photomontages. Drawing on assemblage practices, her collages create tangible lapses of time that speak to the human condition, intertwining personal memories with social, cultural, and aesthetic histories.
Izabela Pluta’s expanded photographic practice has developed a unique visual language of spatial and representational means to signal a different modality of vision. Working across collage, film-based photography, sculpture, installation, and video, her work explores the intersection of photography with concepts of time, memory, and place.
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Presented in conjunction with the exhibition 'All The World's Memories' at UNSW Galleries, 13 February – 3 May 2026. Explore the full suite of public programs.
Pat Hoffie’s interdisciplinary practice addresses themes of power and postcolonial legacies through centring aspects of human experience. Her new body of work responds to the social mediatisation of the conflict in Gaza, while invoking printmaking’s historical role in bearing witness to violence and injustice.
Lillian O’Neil is an Australian artist based in Wadawarrung/Torquay who makes collages describing the human condition, using found imagery from pre‐digital books and magazines. Her works short-circuit visual information, with bodies taking on peculiar hybrid characteristics, surfaces merging with print textures, and the junctures between body, architecture, day, night, earth, and sky all disintegrating. The reduction of colour and the muted tones in the collages make tangible lapses of time as they weave together fragments of the past to form new scenarios and narratives.
Izabela Pluta is a Polish-born Australian artist who interrogates the function of photographic images. Conceptually anchored in the effects of globalisation and her experience as a migrant to Australia, Pluta questions how things from one place fit into another and speak to experiences of place in a changing environmental and societal condition.
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