Batik Landscape

Batik landscape imagines a pre colonial landscape where the Toraja tribe of Sulawesi are living harmoniously with nature. In a dream the Dutch arrive by ship are the tribe go into hiding & this interaction of vastly different cultures occurs. The painting aims to depict the life that Indigenous tribes enjoy, where the learning about nature and human habitation is recognised as important for our ecological knowledge, now that we face the question about how to correct the damage to the environment.

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Simon linardi as an Artist & Architect, founder of Atelier Cartel (Architecture, design & art). Linardi gained his education at RMIT university & Politecnico di milano, completing a master of architecture & winning the Australia institute of architecture graduate prize in 2011 for his thesis. Linardi has his first major solo exhibition at Warrnambool regional art gallery, Victoria from Feb-Oct 2020 with the installation of ‘The Bull-Cow’ an 11m long inhabitable architectural structure/ sculpture , accompanied by a 35 lineal metre mural in the family gallery space.

Linardi’s paintings and drawings are held in private collections in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Thailand, Dubai, Lebanon, Pakistan, India, Italy, Greece, Spain, France, Netherlands & the USA.

Linardi exhibited his paintings & Architectural projects at the Venice International Architecture biennale in 2018, at the unfolding pavilion, which was published into a text format & is available on Amazon.

Exhibitions:

4 Solo shows at SOL Gallery, Brunswick street Fitzroy (2022-2024)
2 group shows at Galeria Azur, Madrid, Spain, (2022-2023)
Group show - Big sound art (cocurated) Brunswick (2020)
Solo show, Warrnambool Art Gallery (the wag) (2020)
Venice architecture biennale, unfolding pavilion (2018)