Walk
At the heart of this exhibition is a 250 kilometre journey along the Great South West Walk, an increasingly endangered natural environment cradled in the far south-west corner of Victoria. For three weeks, this group of artists travelled together through forest and river, estuary and bay to create work in response to their experience of the Walk. The artists followed a path that took them far from the familiarity and isolation of the studio into a landscape conceived as a creative, social, cultural, ethical and aesthetic relation to place.
Featured Artists
Peter Corbett
I hope that the images convey some sense of the ancient influences of the indigenous peoples that once lived there, and of...
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Vicky Couzens
The Lands we walked upon are my Grandmothers' Country; part of the Dharwurd Wurrong - Gunditjmara. The Walk was a time of...
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Nicky Hepburn
Most of my day to day work at the bench is about attention to detail and small things. My natural inclination...
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Brian Laurence
The soundscape of the Great South West Walk portrays a personal impressionist experience of the environments encountered along the route; Cobboboonee, Moleside,...
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Jan Learmonth
Along the river, eons of weather sculpts fragile limestone cliffs that are home to birds and precarious plants. Amongst reflections and shadowed reeds,...
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Carmel Wallace
Discovery Bay offered me materials on its tide-lines: plastic broken free from cray-pots, and jettisoned cargo wedges once used to hold logs,...
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Ilka White
Discovery Bay. The sound of the sea – low roar and the swelling, foaming ‘shhh’ of the water coming in and receding....
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John Wolseley
The walk caused me to evolve or push in another direction a particular kind of drawing that I call ‘frottage’, in which...
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A NETS Victoria touring exhibition
Curator: Martina Copely
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