TY - ADVS
T1 - Grounded
A2 - Martin, Brian
N1 - 'Methexical Countryscape Bundjalung #8'
2017, charcoal on paper, 209 x 146 cm
'Methexical Countryscape Kamilaroi #7'
2017, charcoal on paper, 209 x 146 cm
'Methexical Countryscape Kamilaroi #9'
2017, charcoal on paper, 209 x 146 cm
'Methexical Countryscape Kamilaroi #8'
2017, charcoal on paper, 209 x 146 cm
'Methexical Countryscape Bundjalung #9'
2017, charcoal on paper, 209 x 146 cm
'Methexical Countryscape Kamilaroi #10'
2017, charcoal on paper, 209 x 146 cm
'Methexical Countryscape Kamilaroi #11'
2017, charcoal on paper, 209 x 146 cm
'Methexical Countryscape Bundjalung #7'
2017, charcoal on paper, 209 x 146 cm
'Methexical Countryscape Paakantyi #13'
2017, charcoal on paper, 209 x 146 cm
RESEARCH STATEMENT:
These ten drawings focus on the traditional Country of Bundjalung and Kamilaroi. Methexis emphasizes a physical ground and it is through this ground that Indigenous practices resonate. Indigenous culture is based on an ancestral history where various aspects of culture are not isolated. For example, there is no distinction between art, culture and living in the mediated experience of human beings. The word Countryscape is used instead of landscape to reiterate that Country is a living subject as opposed to being an object. Land or
landscape tends to convey the notion of object whereas Countryscape denotes subjectivity. The innovation and significance of these works is they combine a more detailed realism and representation to further their living subjectivity and ontological premise.
Six works were acquired into private collections.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
M3 - Commissioned or Visual Artwork
PB - William Mora Galleries
CY - Richmond, Vic, Australia
T2 - Grounded
Y2 - 26 October 2017 through 17 November 2017
ER -