WITH NATURE

BRIDGET BASKERVILLE, MEGAN COPE, WENDY DAWES, MARLEY DAWSON, SAMMY HAWKER, ANNIKA ROMEYN

CURATED BY ALEXANDER BOYNES

Exhibition Dates: 10 February - 6 April 2024

With Nature brings together a selection of contemporary Australian artists who have produced works in collaboration with the environment, where the landscape has influenced the outcome of the work, to speak of Earth’s transformation due to our influence. The pandemic demonstrated the power of human collaboration during perilous times, however the unfathomable levels of collaboration at work in the natural environment offers invaluable lessons for contemplation. Featuring a range of artists working in photography, drawing, sculpture and textiles, the exhibition poses the question: how can we collaborate with our natural environment to better understand how to live a sustainable future on this planet?

Images:

BRIDGET BASKERVILLE Dead River (work in progress) (detail) 2023, 2 channel video, corroded copper plates; 
MEGAN COPE Kinyingarra Guwinyanba (detail), 2022, Burogari (Cyprus Pine), Kinyinyarra (Sydney Rock Oyster) shell and stainless-steel trace wire, photo by Cian Sanders;
WENDY DAWES Perpetual Motion Machine (work in progress), 2024;
SAMMY HAWKER Murramarang NP #1, 2020, pigment ink-jet print, 110 x 110cm, edition 1 of 5 + 2AP;
MARLEY DAWSON Hum (Louis), 2022, brass, steel, timber, electrics, 184 x 71 x 6cm; 
ANNIKA ROMEYN Wana Karnu (work in progress) (detail), 2024, rust and ink on Rives BFK 300gsm paper.