SERIES/EXHIBITIONS
An Internal Rumour
Evocations of childhood's memories and dreams, and how the two are frequently melded, distilled to their emotional trace element. Some are as vivid as daylight, others opaque and diaphanous as twilight's shadows.
Poet/philosopher George Santayana's quote, titling this series, perfectly describes memory's ambiguity, in which, "the picture we frame of the past grows every day less similar to the original experience."
Through the prism of a childhood that sensed magic and possibility beyond the green suburbs, these works also serve as portraits of awkward adolescence and its longing for embrace and inclusion.
All images from An Internal Rumour © Marea Reed 2015
All prints 60x90cm, Archival pigment print on cotton rag
Edition of 5 — please contact re available edition numbers
![The awkwardness of adolescence and uncomfortable silences](https://format.creatorcdn.com/0d30b6c0-b856-4d84-83cc-b9a80e736313/0/0/0/0,0,2400,1594,700,1594/0-0-0/3cee4a34-dcd7-40c3-9e86-fd27074cad63/1/1/In_the_silence.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037489452~hmac=89715bfa75e3a8a742636715c7f2de1f83f36d58be15793a91295924adfe3e2a)
![A tennis court, a little sister, a teenage tryst and an afternoon that seems to go on forever](https://format.creatorcdn.com/0d30b6c0-b856-4d84-83cc-b9a80e736313/0/0/0/0,0,2400,1597,700,1597/0-0-0/f38273a7-5b61-432c-8104-d2c3141f512c/1/1/Saturday_afternoon.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037489452~hmac=c2e9ed8af9c8973fd7862e93e32fbfddf7a306c9e1357b116aa18ba4a81a1817)
© Marea Reed 2015 ×
![Lost in thought and teenage reverie](https://format.creatorcdn.com/0d30b6c0-b856-4d84-83cc-b9a80e736313/0/0/0/0,0,1597,2400,700,2400/0-0-0/316f3163-0057-4aad-8f44-c0f0a2a0d950/1/1/Soon.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037489452~hmac=f2fb985d9b9a0a120165b35d82bc8515cbaa2ee084f167d2f7e692a1cca1d74d)
© Marea Reed 2015 ×
![A rural idyll for two girls in the late afternoon](https://format.creatorcdn.com/0d30b6c0-b856-4d84-83cc-b9a80e736313/0/0/0/0,0,2405,1600,700,1600/0-0-0/722284b1-f6be-48ae-ad87-df37f31070e9/1/1/In_the_meadow.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037489452~hmac=755f7222d75a26a7185b6331f1efc41baf2678f6ea183898d59d6a45c3deadcd)
© Marea Reed 2015 ×
![One canoe on the river and the girls in the gang always waiting for the boys](https://format.creatorcdn.com/0d30b6c0-b856-4d84-83cc-b9a80e736313/0/0/0/0,0,2400,1600,700,1600/0-0-0/776f1213-243a-48f7-8adc-a3786a60dcef/1/1/The_girls_waited.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037489452~hmac=2af5aeb7b1cbb263a48fed35871be290bc0ff1ac71836d0a9a7ae6ad5a4f176f)
© Marea Reed 2015 ×
![The desire to fly away is never far away](https://format.creatorcdn.com/0d30b6c0-b856-4d84-83cc-b9a80e736313/0/0/0/0,0,2400,1597,700,1597/0-0-0/cda2509a-1ce6-4ee7-82fa-7cc9e51ec596/1/1/To_the_horizon.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037489452~hmac=c2e9ed8af9c8973fd7862e93e32fbfddf7a306c9e1357b116aa18ba4a81a1817)
© Marea Reed 2015 ×
![In the secret refuge of a swing and a wild oasis, running away from home delayed](https://format.creatorcdn.com/0d30b6c0-b856-4d84-83cc-b9a80e736313/0/0/0/0,0,2500,1664,700,1664/0-0-0/61b7cffa-7ce3-4309-a332-ae04e0747f7a/1/1/A_little_longer.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037489452~hmac=fc683d6ae6c31e9b961210f71907cfc3dbaac5a35994baa364f02590d0fb56f3)
© Marea Reed 2015 ×
![What a child sees or thinks it sees is remembered forever](https://format.creatorcdn.com/0d30b6c0-b856-4d84-83cc-b9a80e736313/0/0/0/0,0,2400,1593,700,1593/0-0-0/eba0d5a8-1844-42a7-a440-7c7c16b27848/1/1/Vision_on_Belgium_Avenue.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037489452~hmac=9fdae6488e644da33f860d317601e9f0ae32810419b09ed6beafb8798cead126)
© Marea Reed 2015 ×
![The bedroom window provides a perch for vistas and teenage dreams of a bigger world](https://format.creatorcdn.com/0d30b6c0-b856-4d84-83cc-b9a80e736313/0/0/0/0,0,2400,1597,700,1597/0-0-0/44201bda-fcf7-49a2-a013-36ac4d11efc7/1/1/Something_more.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037489452~hmac=c2e9ed8af9c8973fd7862e93e32fbfddf7a306c9e1357b116aa18ba4a81a1817)
© Marea Reed 2015 ×
![A deserted suburban street at night is the perfect place for balletic dreams of freedom](https://format.creatorcdn.com/0d30b6c0-b856-4d84-83cc-b9a80e736313/0/0/0/0,0,2400,1597,700,1597/0-0-0/8ab38a9b-3237-4659-863e-a02719d83d26/1/1/Free.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037489452~hmac=c2e9ed8af9c8973fd7862e93e32fbfddf7a306c9e1357b116aa18ba4a81a1817)
© Marea Reed 2015 ×