BLACK AND BLUE - TENDER LANDSCAPES   THE LOBBY GALLERY

Black and Blue - Tender Landscapes is about encounters in nature and the remembering body. Focussed on a local site that I regularly walk through , it endured a bushfire seven years ago and the observations I have made over that time is the impetus for the work on show.

The unfolding of its history and its recovery forms the basis of the idea of the title Tender Landscapes. A bruised but healing landscape, the colours black and blue dominate the body of work. Repeated visits to this site reveal  fragments  of an unremembered history. I am interested in how the environment can simultaneously seem so alien and yet familiar.

The world, it seems, is the maximum number of things, or of forces, that can exist together.*

In the service of the pulsating world, memory, it seems,
Is the most forceful
Minimum of stored and charged details
That can be made to flow restoratively into each other
Over time

(R Gibson in response to R Gray) *Epigrams, New Selected Poems, 1998 Robert Gray excerpt from , Memoryscopes,  Ross Gibson ISBN 978-1-74258-759-2