A SOLO EXHIBITION BY AMELIA JAJKO

Bauhinia Season is a collection of work that positions the idea of a season not as a measure of climate, but as a passage of time shaped by familiar routines, the people we feel closest to and ordinary rituals of everyday life.

The exhibition emerged following a series of workshops I was privileged to facilitate with Elders living in remote Kimberley communities. Participants were invited to paint in response to a prompt: If you could keep one memory in a box forever, what would it be? Rather than recalling big milestone events, almost every participant returned to quiet chapters of everyday life, remembering children underfoot, a particular food shared with loved ones, time spent fishing, or simply being together. 

This idea became the catalyst for a body of work that explores the quiet intersection of memory, presence and belonging. 

These works are a way of lingering in the moment, to pay attention. Bauhinia season is an accumulation of small ordinary things; shared meals, days spent swimming, watching the light shift through the garden, not as an illustration of memory, but more so a way of staying in the moment a little longer, considering that maybe these small things may one day reveal themselves to define a season.