Souvenirs and mementoes serve as reminders of places visited, emotions held or events experienced in the past. They are held close as they open the door to some half forgotten mood or a frame of mind. Castleden's screen-prints, in various shades of grey on white, evoke the idea of memories that, when seen through the mists of time, may have lost their colour but not their impact.

In her six delicate maps named Roy Hill, Nullagine, Capital, Cue, Wyloo, Leonora, Castleden prints a few thin geographical lines and names of abandoned wells, mines, out camps and airfields across a pure white surface. What was once a guide to places of importance in the vast landscape, is now a map that takes us from emptiness to nothing. If human endeavour is just a memory and man-made structures mere souvenirs of another time, life continues in the delicate blooms that spread like wildflowers over the deserted land. Reinforcing the idea of futile efforts, is the installation Abandoned (near Wittenoom) as it offers a collection of neatly folded old work shirts, embroidered with place names, ready to pack away.

One can get lost in the series Vista, a collection of four white gesso covered horizontal panels each displaying muliltple achromatic landscapes. The panels bring together the abundance of nature seen in Western Baroque art and decorative Oriental screens. Each exhibit hosts three or four vertical compositions of flowers and leaves, streams and mountains, printed on a single surface. The individual components of each panel connect, sometimes across a white void, via the flow of pattern or grey headed mapping pins that draw a unifying element such as a stream or mountain range. There is a sense of elegance, almost fragility, in these works despite their owning a powerful sense of presence.

Castleden's work is mesmerizing. Although she offers 'busy' compositions, the images maintain a quietude in their fine balance and lack of colour. We have room to look at the lines and shapes as well as consider the spaces between, to calculate the graduation of tones and note the interaction of different floral patterns. And we find the time to think, to remember, no matter what memory they evoke. Highly satisfying viewing.