No Fire Country

This work was created after taking part in a Cultural Burn along the headland at Corunna Point on the far south coast of NSW. I felt privileged to learn about the practice of Cultural Burning in order to heal Country. During the process we learned about No Fire Country, a very special type of habitat that does not need fire to regenerate and manages its own micro climate. It was often used as camp spots by the Old People due to its proximity to the ocean and the cool shelter it provided.

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I am a lifelong visual artist currently living on the far south coast of NSW. I have made art in many forms over most of my life, including an earlier practice in ceramics and installation but at the moment I am exploring watercolour and mixed media more deeply. I am interested in surfaces that carry their own history; layers that partly bury what came before; stains, washes, broken lines, erasures and process-generated marks. I am drawn to quiet atmospheric fields interrupted by searching, investigative marks; fragments emerging from obscurity; and small details that imply something larger beyond the frame. I move between abstraction and recognition, surface and depth, expansiveness and intimacy, concealment and revelation. My process can involve allowing, covering, obscuring, excavating, selecting and revealing rather than simply building towards a predetermined image. I want fragments and clues to hold attention, recognition to arrive gradually, and ideally a discovery to change the viewer's understanding of what they thought they were seeing. I want them to feel that they have found something rather than simply been shown it.