The Cultivated Landscape

Solo exhibition of Australian and French cultivated landscapes in London UK, in 2007 then later at Alliance Française de Melbourne, Australia in 2008.

This is a theme of parallel drawings and paintings of the two cultivated landscapes in Australia and in France. The symmetry of agricultural cultivation, debris of farming, scarecrows, and abandoned projects. Elements present outside that of just the landscape – such as the shadows of jets over young wheat fields or discarded fertiliser bags flying over ploughed fields. Mirages that come and go in heat haze. I grew up in the country in Western Australia, where climate was often cruel, colours were both extremely harsh and surprisingly soft. In France, I found much that was familiar, much that was strange, and much that we shared in our bond with the earth.