C0-OCCURRENCE
BIFB 2025 – Open Walls Exhibition
NIC (Neurodivergent Image Collective)
Neurodivergent artists Arrayah Loynd, Lisa Murray, Sara Nash and Kim Percy invite viewers to experience fragments of their inner worlds. Outdoor slide-viewer installations reveal intimate glimpses – exploring masking, perception, and the complexity of identity.
OUTDOOR INSTALLATIONS:
Peep holes – Umbrella Lane
Wall paste ups – McKenzie Street
Ballarat Central
23 Aug – 19 Oct 2025
Mon-Sun 24hrs FREE
Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2025 Program
W: Arrayah Loynd / Lisa Murray / Sara Nash / Kim Percy
ARRAYAH LOYND
CO-OCCURRENCE
Exhibition images in full
(From series, Come and Find Me)
See the full series here
Book available here
ARTIST STATEMENT:
My Brain doesn’t process thoughts and feelings very well. It struggles to separate things, gets them all tangled up and leaves me exhausted. Being able to express myself visually and creatively becomes a burning need. It brings a sense of relief from extreme emotions and physical sensations that I don’t always understand. It helps to unravel the coil in my belly and the burning in my mind.
The images within this series reflect the place in my mind where trauma and memory converge. It combines multiple images from a near and distant past and the continuous blending and erosion of pixels until I arrive at the visual embodiment that is the confusion of my mind.
My brain doesn’t hold memory,
Not much anyway.
What memory there is is fragmented, disjointed,
Something that I can’t quite touch
But leaves me feeling confused,
Frustrated, and overwhelmed.
My brain doesn’t work in a linear fashion.
It shoots off into a million different points at once,
Stretching me thin and exhausted.
I see fragments of words spoken,
And feel moments of deeds done.
They hold me down and hold me back.
Like a child I fold into myself,
Disorientated as to what is real and what is not.
Told to be good,
Be still,
Be silent.
This world is not for the likes of me.
I can try and negotiate but it makes no difference.
I am frustrated and frustrating,
Ask anyone.
I am not who they say I am,
I am not who you think I am.
I am no one and nothing,
I am everyone and everything.
So come and find me,
But only in the small moments when I want to be found.
I make no promise that I will be there.