During her first years living in Derby in the West Kimberley, Breckon used a spare room to experiment with three-dimensional drawing.

Hills and Home is a response to Derby’s hill-less landscape. Breckon was unnerved by its open skies, flat horizons and vast expanse. In contrast, her hometown in New Zealand has roughly 480 named mountains and hills – limiting flat land to valley basins and coastal plains. Responding to a new life in a remote outback town, Breckon used a domestic space to sketch her childhood home and the hills above it. 

Living in the flat township of Derby made her more aware of this negative space, and the feelings that come with living beneath land formations that obscure the sky.