REMNANTS
Image: Wendy Teakel, Remnant, 2021, wire, corrugated iron, native grasses, dimensions variable. Photo by Brenton McGeachie.
WENDY TEAKEL
29 April - 3 July 2022
Remnants acknowledges Wendy Teakel’s continued engagement with the concerns of Arte Povera and Environmental Art and our spatial and temporal relationships to land. It takes form through a series of installation pieces where investigating the nature and fragility of ecotones between bush, farm and garden landscapes. Detritus, such as fencing wire, guttering, corrugated iron, broken tools and furniture is first collected then manipulated and fashioned to form the main structures for individual works. These hand-made elements are combined with soft materials, including fabrics and living plants, to evoke vulnerable relationships and tensions which occur between human and natural systems. The technique of Kusomono or miniature gardening employed within the installations combines a sense of resilience and a physical shift in scale for the viewer while implying a fragile tenacity and endurance that can exist in ecotones.
Read Sasha Grishin’s review for the Canberra Times here.