Peta Tranquille
Peta Tranquille is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the fragility of memory, identity, and perception. Drawing from a long career in cartography and her lived experience with Aphantasia—the inability to visualise—Peta creates thoughtful, often structured works that reflect the challenge of recalling what cannot be seen. Through photography, drawing, painting, and sculpture, she pieces together fragments of personal and collective memory, offering quiet reflections on what we forget, what we notice, and how we make sense of our world.
Frosted Over
Timber, artist pigment, photography and photographic slides,
30cm x 30cm x 7cm, 2025
$700
“Frosted Over explores the tension between preservation and loss, using fragmented photographs and absent images to reflect on the fragile traces that remain after time has passed. Drawing on a winter holiday captured but never fully recalled, the work becomes a personal archive of what once was—what was seen, but is now inaccessible.
Influenced by Aphantasia, a condition that prevents visual recall, the piece parallels the fading remnants found in urban spaces—ghost signs, missing letters, stories stripped of context. Each element in the work, from empty slides to incomplete images, echoes the fractured nature of memory and the quiet persistence of what resists erasure.
Like old posters peeling from a wall, these fragments speak not through clarity, but through what they suggest. Frosted Over invites viewers to consider how we store, forget, and reinterpret the things we can no longer fully see, both in the city and within ourselves.”