Since completing her BA in Fine Arts in 1991, Heather Alderson has maintained a dedicated studio practice. Her recent work explores the ways images and events are presented, interpreted, and remembered. Drawing on both personal and political archival photographs, she begins with close study of these materials but increasingly paints from memory rather than direct reference. This shift allows her to investigate the space between fact and recollection—asking what is remembered, what is lost, and what becomes re-imagined in the gaps where memory falters.