Camille Laddawan

Camille Laddawan — 'K-h!', Beaded Textile Artwork, 2024

$5,500

K-h! explores the sounds of a baby, to consider pre-linguistic speech. From the age of one week to four months, vocal sounds of a baby have been recorded. The pitches and rhythms of these sounds have then been translated into Western music notation. Subsequently, this notation has been translated into a visual music code and embedded into a large beading made of tarlatan and glass seed beads. In this process, the wetness, bubbliness and fleshiness of the baby’s sounds have been lost; the voice has been separated from the body. This attempt to categorise the baby’s untranslatable sounds has omitted an element of her uniqueness. However, through analysing the coded sounds, repetitions and patterns have emerged, creating understandings that otherwise may have been missed in the moment.

Camille Laddawan’s practice is centred on beading. Her work is often inscribed with fragments of text and music notation by way of a visual code. Through these codes, her work comments on the nature of language. By drawing on personal encounters, Camille examines how institutions use language to structure experience, and how systems of language affect individuals.

Old School

Main Gallery

March 15 - May 3 2025

A contemporary response to the heritage and legacies of craft practice, featuring the work of six diverse practitioners.

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Material: glass beads, cotton

Dimensions: approx. 100 x 170cm

Please note when purchasing, exhibition works are to be collected when exhibition closes.

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