ARTIST STATEMENT
As a nation, Australia prides itself on its diversity and resilience, in both its people and its landscape. My work is influenced by the practice of Australian artist Judy Watson and her use of maps and data. Working with layers and colours, highlighting the drought-stricken areas of Townsville on a military map dated 1942, A Lucky Country is intended to invite the audience to consider their connections to our country, the fragility of life, and the possibilities of change.
ARTWORK PROCESS
Research around the rainfall or the lack thereof in the Townsville and surrounding areas was used and manipulated to draw attention to a land in crisis. Oil pastels representative of the dry and arid earth were worked into the surface of a military map of the Townsville region.
