Interior Fractures

  • Dates
    2024 - Ongoing
  • Author
  • Locations Sydney, Australia

Exploring moments when time and space feel unsettled, recursive and open-ended, "Interior Fractures" investigates how photography might suspend, fracture, or reconfigure temporal experience.

Interior Fractures considers the potential of photography to move beyond the ‘decisive moment’ and convey experiences that evolve over time. Reinterpreting the photograph as a sculptural image-object to traverse ideas of permanence and instability, and consider “exhibition” as active and unfolding.

Reflective acrylic surfaces capture the present moment, bringing continuous “liveness” to the work. Translucent photo-objects, refract and layer, allowing multiple compositions, perspectives, and viewpoints - interacting with the environment and the viewer.

All works are fragments or details of interiors - suggestive of a larger setting. They are arranged in dialogue with each other, in what could be viewed as a deconstructed room or a series of fractured interiors. This idea is supported by a one-to-one scale in which the imagery is the same size as its “original”.

Transparent free-standing photo-sculptures that fold architectural space are choreographed with floating acrylic windows and wall-based photo-objects to create installations that require navigation. The audience is invited to be active participants in the present tense, engaging not just visually but through spatial awareness and bodily movement, becoming the figurative element of the work.

Each individual work is made in collaboration with light over time. The works articulate the plasticity of time - how a single image might contain multiple temporalities or how a brief, ephemeral instance might be rendered durational.

Reconfiguring photography as a spatial and durational practice, the work considers the materiality of light, the continuum of time and the invisible presences that shape experience. The photograph emerges not as a fixed record of the past but as a site of temporal negotiation—where time opens, and the present slows.

© Lisa Stonham - Image from the Interior Fractures photography project
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Everyday Wonder, (install view) (2024). Mixed Archival Photographic Media, Space, Fluro Light, Timber, Metal & Acrylic. Dimensions Variable

© Lisa Stonham - Pattern Recognition (2024). Transparent prints mounted to acrylic, timber and space. 61 x 61 x 61 cm
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Pattern Recognition (2024). Transparent prints mounted to acrylic, timber and space. 61 x 61 x 61 cm

© Lisa Stonham - Pattern Recognition (2024). Transparent prints mounted toacrylic, timber and space. 61 x 61 x 61 cm
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Pattern Recognition (2024). Transparent prints mounted toacrylic, timber and space. 61 x 61 x 61 cm

© Lisa Stonham - Interior Fracture (2024-2025). Transparent Print Mounted to Acrylic, Painted timber. 60 x 60 x 2 cms
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Interior Fracture (2024-2025). Transparent Print Mounted to Acrylic, Painted timber. 60 x 60 x 2 cms

© Lisa Stonham - Image from the Interior Fractures photography project
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Your Body is a Field of Perception (2024). Mixed archival photographic media, acrylic, nylon wire, metal and recyclable adhesive photograph. 300 x 100 x 400 cm (variable)

© Lisa Stonham - Light Fold (2024). Gloss print face mounted to acrylic, metal shadow frame. 61 x 91 x 6cm
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Light Fold (2024). Gloss print face mounted to acrylic, metal shadow frame. 61 x 91 x 6cm

© Lisa Stonham - Image from the Interior Fractures photography project
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Your Body is a Field of Perception, (detail) (2024). Mixed Archival Photo Media, Space, Sunlight, Existing Architecturee, Acrylic, Metal & Nylon Wire. 260 x 120 x 120cms (Variable)

© Lisa Stonham - Image from the Interior Fractures photography project
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Everyday Wonder, (install view) (2024). Mixed Archival Photographic Media, Space, Fluro Light, Timber, Metal & Acrylic. Dimensions Variable

© Lisa Stonham - Image from the Interior Fractures photography project
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Metacognition … Watching Yourself Watching (2024). Mixed archival photographic media, acrylic, nylon wire and metal. 72 x 72 x 14 cm

© Lisa Stonham - fifteen minute time fold (2024). Transparent prints mounted to acrylic - modified metal wall fixtures. 61 x 61 x 15 cm
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fifteen minute time fold (2024). Transparent prints mounted to acrylic - modified metal wall fixtures. 61 x 61 x 15 cm

© Lisa Stonham - Image from the Interior Fractures photography project
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Between Time (2024-2025). Transparent Print Mounted to Acrylic, Space & Coloured Shadow. 60 x 60 x 1 cms

© Lisa Stonham - Image from the Interior Fractures photography project
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Photography Backwards (details) (2025). Mixed Archival Photographic Media, Space, Sunlight, Existing Architecture, Acrylic, Metal and Nylon Wire. Dimensions Variable.

© Lisa Stonham - Photography Backwards, (2025). Mixed Archival Photographic Media, Sunlight, Space, Timber& Acrylic - (Variable)
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Photography Backwards, (2025). Mixed Archival Photographic Media, Sunlight, Space, Timber& Acrylic - (Variable)

© Lisa Stonham - accumulating (2025). Transparent photo-media, acrylic, nylon wire. 61 x 61 x .45 & 63 x 67x .45 cms
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accumulating (2025). Transparent photo-media, acrylic, nylon wire. 61 x 61 x .45 & 63 x 67x .45 cms

© Lisa Stonham - Image from the Interior Fractures photography project
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Interior Fractures (2025)(Install View). Transparent Photo-Media, Folded Acrylic, Existing Architectue, Space & Light. Dimensions variable

© Lisa Stonham - Image from the Interior Fractures photography project
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Interior Fractures (2025)(Install View). Transparent Photo-Media, Folded Acrylic, Existing Architectue, Space & Light. Dimensions variable