Walk: art through forest and river
Nicky Hepburn, Cuttlefish, Seed Pods, Galls II, Bark, 2007, cuttlefish, found seed pods, steel, tree bark. From the NETS Victoria touring exhibition, Walk, on show at Burnie Regional Gallery until 14 September. Image courtesy the artist. Photograph by Terence Bogue.
“Walk presents the work of eight Australian artists – 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 group of artists walked through forest and river, estuary and bay to create work in response to their experience of an ever-shifting environment.”
“Art expressing its relation to land, this exhibition is an invitation to discover what new meanings we are making of this place – to figure our relationship to the land, understand how the connections between inhabitant and eco-system may be meaningfully re-established.”
Walk is a NETS Victoria touring exhibition that features around 40 works of contemporary art, craft, sound and video art. The show tours to Burnie Regional Gallery (TAS) 15 August 2008 – 14 September 2008, Riddoch Art Gallery (SA) 18 October 2008 – 30 November 2008, Flinders University Art Museum (SA) 6 February 2009 – 20 March 2009 and Bunbury Regional Art Galleries (WA) 2 May – 16 June 2009
