Arkaroola – Great Australian Landscape Project | Ballarat Biennale of Australian Art, Victoria | 21 September – 6 November 2018Amy’s sparkling embroideries could speak of imagined utopic landscapes. The stitched surface has a geometric quality, referencing her sculptural practice, with spatial planes and strata described by directional lines of thread. During a trip to Arkaroola Amy was struck by the ancientness of this landscape that holds the earliest examples of life on earth; a landscape that’s familiar but otherworldly. In response Amy lovingly and laboriously made ‘Arkaroola’ – a nod to millions of years of evolution. The work shimmers reacting to light while the image and colours change as you move around them reflecting our experience of nature.
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