ADAM ALBINI

Adam Albini is a Hamilton-based artist whose practice explores memory, identity, and place through recycled paper. He treats paper not simply as a surface, but as a material embedded with stories and the overlooked details of everyday life. By collecting discarded paper from local environments, Albini uses gathering as a form of research and community engagement.

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In the studio, these materials are layered onto wooden panels with wheat paste, forming dense, textured surfaces that function as material archives. Albini then cuts, rips, and sands into the accumulated layers, a process he describes as excavation. This revealing of buried fragments reflects his interest in how places and identities are built, erased, and reshaped over time.

 

Each finished work captures a moment within this ongoing cycle, emphasizing the tactile relationship between memory, material, and environment.