wild n west
31 Oct - 30 Nov
official opening Thurs 31 Oct 5.30 pm
Gallerysmith
40 Porter St, Prahran VIC
p: 03 9008 4592
“This body of work draws from my lived experience of growing up on the land in the wheatbelt of Western Australia and Hamersley Range, Pilbara. They are fragments of memories from my encounters with our unique wildlife and my biophilic disposition to connect with nature in her myriad forms.
As a young child I believed the landscape and living things had their own language and could communicate with each other, sharing ancient knowledge through their intricate symbiotic relationships. I felt a yearning to identify with that world more than my own. To me, my language was clumsy and singular, speaking only to its kind. To deepen my understanding, I began to record detailed observations of animal behaviour in their natural environment.
Over time my childhood interest merged with my art practice and has become a lifelong odyssey to explore an arcadian narrative and coded visual language unique to my own self portrayal.” LP 2024
