Congratulations to Belinda Eckermann on the completion of her Masters.
I assisted Belinda with the formatting and editing of her exegesis text. You can read more about her exploration of contemporary agricultural issues in the Visual Arts on her website.
Since the late 1970s Jill Orr has been a formidable presence in contemporary Australian art. One of the early proponents of a burgeoning environmental art movement, Orr utilises a combination of performance, photography, video and installation in her representations of the Australian environment. Orr throws up troubling images of the space we inhabit that prompt her audience to question their place within that environment. While intricately connected to the landscape, Orr’s work deals equally with the human element, and ultimately, the intertwined existence of the two… Continue reading
This article was first published by Horsham Regional Art Gallery to accompany an exhibition and fundraising appeal to acquire Southern Cross -to Bear and Behold - Missionary 3, 2007.
“As opposed to landscape based art of earlier times [environmental] art was not a depiction or representation of land, it was an interaction with space.”
- Michael Shiell
For environmental artist Michael Shiell art has increasingly become a celebration of process in which site and material are inseparable. Persuaded that the experience of art can be both fleeting and private, a surrender of notions of audience and permanence has been the basis for a flourishing art practice. When understood as a profound exchange between the artist and their environment Shiell’s installations invite our participation with that interaction…
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This essay was first published by Horsham Regional Art Gallery in March 2010 in the exhibition catalogue for Times Four as part of the Art is…elemental Festival.
