Coal does not forget what it has held.

Embers Unveiled is a site-specific installation placed on the grounds of the Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability in Waverton, facing the water and the remnants of the old jetty beyond. The coal, gifted by a fellow artist, is arranged on the ground and bound with red thread, sitting quietly in a post-industrial landscape that still carries the weight of its own history.

The Coal Loader was once a place of labour, its grounds shaped by the hands of workers, many of them migrants. The work sits with that history without naming it directly, letting the material and the site speak to each other. Coal as fuel, as residue, as something extracted and carried. Red thread as connection, as witness, as the thing that holds what would otherwise fall apart.

The work opens toward broader questions of migration, labour, environment and what we leave behind in the places we have worked and passed through.

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Embers Unveiled was shown as a finalist in the North Sydney Art Prize 2024 at the Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability in Waverton, Sydney.