Walk

Lake Macquarie City Art gallery is proud to present Walk, a special exhibition featuring around 40 works of contemporary art, craft and video art by Peter Corbett, Vicki Couzens, Nicky Hepburn, Brian Laurence, Jan Learmonth, Carmel Wallace, Ilka White and John Wolseley.

At the heart of this exhibition is a 250 kilometre trek along the Great South West Walk, an increasingly endangered natural environment cradled in the far south-west corner of Victoria. For three weeks, this seemingly diverse group of artists walked through forest and river, estuary and bay to create work in response to their experience of an ever-shifting environment. Caught in the movement of the landscape, the artists followed a path that took them far from the familiarity and isolation of the studio.

They sought to collaborate with nature and with one another – not to make the landscape meld with some ideal of representation, but to inhabit it, embrace the unexpected and be open to an infinite number of possible creative enquiries. Along the Walk, local specialists including field naturalists, scientists and indigenous spokespeople joined the artists to share their expertise and passionate engagement with this ancient land.

 

 

Image above: Carmel Wallace, Marking a Walk (detail) 2007. Aluminium signpost markers on plywood, engraving

Image below: Ilka White, Sheath, 2007. Fish scales, silk, cotton thread, monofilament, courtesy the artist

 

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Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie, 1A First Street, Booragul 2284  View in Google Maps