Just as I Remembered: Raine Storey
Raine Storey’s latest body of work is driven by a sustained inquiry into the way we remember.
The artist explores how images linger in the mind long after their details have begun to erode. Her paintings occupy the space between what is recalled and what is felt, examining how time reshapes our visual archive without diminishing its emotional weight. Rather than attempting to fix moments in clarity or realism, Storey embraces fragmentation, allowing memory to surface as layered impressions - partial, unstable, yet deeply resonant.
Working with oil paint and plaster on fibreglass, Storey constructs surfaces that feel simultaneously fragile and enduring. The materiality of the work is inseparable from its conceptual foundation. Each piece begins on the same large wooden board, layered repeatedly with paint and plaster. Fibreglass is then applied, bonding to these layers through resin. When the fibreglass is pulled away, it carries with it residue from the previous works - traces, scars, and fragments of earlier images. In this way, every artwork quite literally contains the history of the others. What one piece leaves behind, the next absorbs. The process mirrors Storey’s understanding of memory itself: time diminishes specificity, while the emotional imprint remains intact.
