Nudes:
Skye Thompson

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Skye Thompson, 'Sun Bake', 2024

In Nudes, Skye Thompson reimagines the overlooked material of 8mm home films—transparent leader, light leaks, and physical blemishes—as a space for reflection and repair. Drawing from her family archive, Thompson collages these fragments into delicate compositions that explore memory, the body, and the politics of visibility.

Through a practice grounded in disruption, she embraces imperfection as a form of resistance. Dust, scratches, and spectral images become markers of presence rather than loss. In challenging ideals of cinematic clarity and control, Nudes offers an alternative archive—intimate, fractured, and quietly radical.

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Exhibition artist

Skye Thompson

Studying Screen Production in the late nineties – a time teetering on the cusp of digital imagery – Skye directed 16mm film clips for Brisbane bands.

Time was spent shooting her own vignettes and small documentaries on 8mm film, only to sadly discover she is not a cinematographer. Skye’s own 8mm film family archives have become the only source material she trusts. Years spent interrogating and interrupting the gaze of her forbears now culminate in abstract scans of celluloid that try to transcend.

Skye remains preoccupied with the almost defunct idea that film is a medium where repressed desires can make themselves known.

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