Creative Advisor
Grace Remondo
For Grace Remondo, photography is a language of quiet contemplation, a form of visual storytelling, and a means of societal advocacy, drawing together conceptual fine art, landscape, and street photography in an exploration of memory, loss, and restoration. What draws her most to fine art photography is its capacity to hold space for the invisible, to look beyond the surface of a fractured world and find a profound, quiet beauty beneath. Her practice has become deeply tactile and meditative, treating the photograph as a living object rather than a static image, extending well beyond the shutter click to the physical manipulation of the print through photomontage, organic materials, heavy acrylics, mica powder, overpainting, and the delicate act of stitching gold thread into paper. Inspired by the philosophy of finding beauty within brokenness, her work is ultimately an invitation to pause, to look more closely at our shared vulnerabilities, and to find the light that filters through the cracks.
Showcase
Seven pieces, and what is behind them
Click on the artwork to see it larger, and read Grace’s own description of each piece.
Work 01
Waiting For The Word
Collection: The Rebuilt Horizon: An Inventory of Absence and Light This work serves as the threshold of the series, representing a stagnant state of "Absence" within the wider geography of healing. Here, silence is visualised as a crushing societal weight, the isolating pressure of shame that obliges a survivor to remain quiet and small before the vast, indifferent expanse of the ocean. The "wait" exists in a state of acute tension: it is the survivor’s internal struggle to speak out against a world that demands her silence, paired with a patient, longing anticipation to finally hear "golden" words of validation and justice from that same society. By applying gold acrylic to the empty, lonely bench, the piece introduces the core philosophy of Kintsugi. It signals that this site of isolation is not just a place of abandonment, but the exact point where the journey of luminous, tactile restoration begins.
Work 02
Crystallised Quietness
Collection: The Rebuilt Horizon: An Inventory of Absence and Light This image documents a pivotal, transformative shift in the geography of healing, capturing the precise moment a survivor moves from stagnant absence toward active reclamation. With her head bowed and hands clasped, the subject deliberately turns her back to the past, a posture that is simultaneously deeply vulnerable and immensely powerful. It signifies the hard-won right to reclaim ownership of her body, her scars, and her personal narrative. The heavy salt crystallisation layering over her skin and tattoos symbolises both the biological and emotional gravity of deep psychological mending. By intentionally allowing the salt crust to shift into a warm, golden ochre hue, the piece directly manifests the Kintsugi philosophy. It serves as a visual testament that the cracks and breaks within the human spirit are not meant to be erased or hidden in shame; instead, they are honoured, illuminated, and treated with the precious, enduring value of gold.
Work 03
Lifted
Collection: The Rebuilt Horizon: An Inventory of Absence and Light This artwork represents the definitive arrival at a state of empowered restoration within the geography of healing. Gently twisting her body to look into the distance, the subject is depicted as entirely grounded, serene, and finally at home in her own skin. It captures the exact, sacred threshold where the crushing weight of past trauma begins to dissolve, transforming instead into the quiet momentum of the future. During the hands-on creation process, the manual application of salt and shimmering mica powder organically crystallised into the shape of ethereal, unintended wings. This tactile happenstance serves as a profound visual metaphor for the liberation and unexpected lightness that follows the grueling internal work of emotional repair. In perfect alignment with the philosophy of Kintsugi, the scars have not vanished, they have simply been given wings of light, illuminating her path forward.
Work 04
Kintsugi
Collection: The Rebuilt Horizon: An Inventory of Absence and Light Serving as the structural and emotional culmination point of the series, Kintsugi represents the absolute integration of trauma into an undeniable, empowered presence. The survivor stands tall, fully claiming her history, her skin, and her future. By physically tearing the photographic print and meticulously sewing it back together with gold thread, the medium mirrors the intense internal resilience required to become whole after forced fragmentation. It is a visual and tactile monograph of a woman who refuses to hide her history, transforming her scars into the very threads that hold her power together.
Work 05
The Rebuilt Horizon
Collection: The Rebuilt Horizon: An Inventory of Absence and Light Serving as the overarching conceptual manifesto of the series, this photomontage physically places the survivor back into the very landscape that once dictated her silence and isolation. By deliberately tearing the seascape and physically stitching the portrait directly into the foundational rocks, the artwork demonstrates that true healing is not a passive attempt to return to who we were, but an active, conscious "re-stitching" of ourselves back into the world with a new, stronger internal geography. The intentional application of shimmering mica powder along the torn seams highlights and honours the profound beauty found within these newly created joins.
Work 06
Stress
Collection: The Story I'll Tell This artwork directly addresses the invisible crisis of male depression and the suffocating pressure of systemic societal expectations. The central silhouette is caught in a state of acute claustrophobia, pinned beneath a heavy, chaotic noise of external triggers, ranging from economic strain to institutional demands. To mirror the psychological fracturing of a mental health crisis, the physical print itself has been heavily distressed, crumpled, and torn. This manual intervention forces the viewer to confront the emotional weight not merely as a passive image, but through a visceral, fractured topography of pain.
Work 07
A Man Doesn't Cry
Collection: The Story I'll Tell A cornerstone of my societal advocacy regarding men's mental health, this piece visualises the devastating weight of silent endurance and the toxic mandate to suppress emotion. The figure sits in a posture of complete psychological exhaustion, physically surrounded and suffocated by typographic transfers of the words "stereotype" and "masculinity" that dictate his silence. The image functions as a three-dimensional forensic inventory of isolation, utilising a prominent, hand-embellished fissure split down the canvas, constructed from raw coconut shell fibre and heavy crimson acrylic, to honour the reality of a psychological break while transforming it into a site of undeniable visibility.
In her own words
How Grace got here
Photography, for me, is not merely a tool for documentation; it is a language of quiet contemplation, an intentional act of visual storytelling, and a canvas for societal advocacy. I am profoundly drawn to the intersections of conceptual fine art, landscape, and street photography, genres that allow me to navigate the delicate balance between the raw, fleeting truths of the human condition and the deeply internal landscapes of memory, loss, and restoration.
What I love most about fine art photography is its capacity to hold space for the invisible. It grants permission to look beyond the surface of a fractured world and discover a profound, quiet beauty underneath. My creativity is driven by an ongoing exploration of resilience. I am fascinated by how we carry absence, how light can illuminate the spaces left behind by what we have lost, and how the act of creating can become a form of emotional repair.
My journey into art photography has evolved into a deeply tactile, meditative practice. I treat the photograph as a living object rather than a static image. To fully express the emotional weight of my subjects, my creative process often extends far beyond the shutter click. I am drawn to physical, manual manipulations of the print, deconstructing and rebuilding images through abstract photomontage and diverse mixed-media techniques. This ranges from raw, textured interventions using organic elements like coconut fibre and heavy acrylics to map internal psychological crises, to delicate surface layers of mica powder, overpainting, and physically stitching into the paper with gold thread.
This practice, inspired by the philosophy of finding beauty and strength within brokenness, allows me to honour the scars of existence. By combining the precision of the lens with the deliberate, imperfect touch of the human hand, I seek to create textures that viewers can feel with more than just their eyes. Ultimately, my work is an invitation to pause, to look closer at our shared vulnerabilities, and to find the light that inevitably filters through the cracks.
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