The sun is my religion

Asher Milgate's photographic practice operates as an embodied inquiry into landscape, memory and post-colonial legacy. His approach is shaped by four decades of relationship with the Wiradjuri community in Wellington, New South Wales. As an artist of Anglo-Celtic heritage, Milgate carries the weight of inherited colonial narratives with grandparents involved in the Aborigines Inland Mission in 1940's and his work reflects a quiet insistence on listening, accountability and long-term cultural engagement. Each print in the sun is my religion is handmade - torn, exposed, sewn and reassembled. The fibre-based silver gelatin paper holds not just an image, but memory made material, where silver and salt, shadow and stitch conspire to form something both fragile and certain.