This exhibition explores three sites on the NSW south coast and Victorian east coast:
- Gabo Island – hard red granite on the edge of the brilliant white sands of Croajingalong National Park.
- Cape Dromedary – bound by beautiful spotted gum forest in the lee of Gulaga (Mt Dromedary).
- Guerilla Bay – some of the oldest rocks on the east coast – laid down some 450 million years ago.
In these places it is very hard not to be aware of the time differential – planet versus the very short time frame of humanity. It is also difficult not to be aware of something more, some extraordinary intrinsic liveliness - these places are alive. Sand and rock and the tremulous connection between land and sea. As the sea rises, the land retreats.
Many of these works reflect the ending of the day – the transition of day to night – the time between something and nothing, the time that can linger or go quickly, when everything is heightened, in the place which is the point of change from solid to elusive.
The paintings and drawings are of these places and times, exploring those moments between something and nothing.
Photography by Panisa Ongwat @nina_panisa
Click on image to enlarge.
