The cultural significance of landscape from traditional concepts of nature to more contemporary aspects of urban identity are investigated by Archie Moore (Australia), Jillian Conrad (USA), Olivier Dollinger (France) David Hamill (USA) and Heeseop Yoon (Korea/USA).
The exhibition Colliding Islands explores the complex, and sometimes ambivalent, relationship we have with local and international landscapes. The combined artworks investigate the shifting cultural significance of landscape from traditional concepts of nature to the socio-urban topography of contemporary identities. In effect, they reflect the collisions with technology and question how constructed environments are ordered and defined.
Image above: Archie Moore, Poor-traits (detail) 2009. Ink on paper, three pieces, each 200 x 50cm
Image below: Jillian Conrad, Wormhole, 2009. Glitter, ¾ inch diameter
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1A First Street , Booragul 2284