On at the Art Gallery of Ballarat’s Backspace Gallery is Tas Wansbrough’s Fragments of healing.

Dating back to ancient Greece, votive offerings are objects made and gifted in rituals of healing. Throughout many cultures, people have used votive objects to express hope, seek restoration, or mark a threshold between suffering and relief. Through her sculptures, local artist Tas Wansbrough continues this tradition.

Created through repeated gestures of cutting, carving, sanding, each bodily form is the result of practiced skills and labour. The repetition of these actions becomes a ritualistic process; a way of making meaning through doing. Fragments of healing invites viewers to consider how the act of making, rooted in ritual, repetition, and intention, can become a tool for resilience.