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Forecast, 2009 |
Landmarks
By Kim Williams
15 August – 27 September 2009
Wollongong City Gallery
Wollongong City Gallery’s 08/09 Resident Artist and Technical Officer with the Faculty of Creative Arts @ UOW, Kim Williams, presents an exhibition of painting, drawing, mixed media and installation works exploring themes of the land and the delicate relationship between nature and people.
The artist considers the ways in which marks are made upon the land, whether it be through natural erosion, or human intervention such as farming, mining, development or road-building. In many of the works she employs materials associated with these activities, such as bitumen, cement, sand, leaves, soil and twigs.
In the catalogue essay, Dr Michael Beare states, “Williams identifies with the land in a way that indigenous people, farmers, explorers, bushwalkers and others would understand. Our fate is tied to the land, making ownership, intervention and care crucial issues.”
“Williams’ response to these issues is poetic rather than literal, a duality encompassing both the micro and macro. The artist’s imagery ranges from huge open pit mines to the random scribing of tiny molluscs on sand-encrusted rock platforms,” writes Beare.
Landmarks will be officially opened by Barbara Konkolowicz, Curator of Meroogal, on Friday 14 July at 6.30pm. Admission free, all welcome.
Image: Kim Williams in collaboration with Tim van den Berg, Forecast, 2009, pigmented cement polymer, recycled paper, mixed media and sound
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August 2009
Faculty of Creative Arts
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