EVIDENCE
This solo exhibition ran from 31st Oct - 22 Nov 2012 at ArtHere in Sydney and from July 24th - 17 August 2013 at Edmund Pearce Gallery in Melbourne. The selection of images is a distillation of much of my work from 2010-2012.
It gained much publicity including a write up in The Melbourne Age and Critics' Choice for Art in The Sydney Morning Herald.
Artist Statement
This series of images continues my exploration of anthropogenic, post-natural landscapes - the constant state of flux that exists around us. In essence, I discover places I never knew existed and document evidence of surreal relationships between humans and their natural and man-made surroundings.
There is evidence of extreme alteration of the land, co-existence with nature, subversion of man-made environments and of nature’s retaliation.
The question can be asked - what is natural? Is it natural for humans to shape their surroundings? Is a pile of unearthed coal natural? Is a playground natural? This exhibition portrays all these aspects of the world as natural.
It was important to evaluate each scene without pre-conception, documenting with impartiality. I studied the evidence before me without drawing conclusions as to what has been, or what is to come.
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