"The research explores the framing of identity within different modes of representation, in the history of Australian art, and in the more general field of representation. Conceptualising Australia as an other space I question the notion of a shared Australian subjectivity, arguing that space, conceived of as home and an identity affirming architecture, can also displace the subject. In a series of installations I emplace the viewer in illusory environments that disrupt Western pictorial conventions, cultural narratives and mythologies. I build on poststructural and postcolonial discussions of inside/outside power relations, exile, self and other to reconsider art as a tool for the staging of identity, not just for the subjects already captured inside the frame of the artwork, but for those looking at the work of art, and more importantly, for the marginalised voice of the artist/author."