Plantation #4 2002
Acrylic on canvas
90 x 90 cm
Signed and titled on reverse
Exhibited: Designs on the Land, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, 2002, no. 11, illustrated in brochure; Brigid Cole Adams, Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Hampton, 2009, No. 18
In Plantation #4, 2002, the brazen pine plantations face down the eucalypts which lay gently across the landscape. The plantations fill a dense geometry that ignores watercourses and soil-poor hilltops. Their rational grids have no local reference point. This alien geometry is disconnected from the topography and evidences the dictates of distant landowners. Theirs is a short-term vision while the eucalypt, more sparsely and more sensitively placed, indicates a familiarity with the terrain developed over millennia. - Essay excerpt by Jenny McFarlane, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, 2002
(refer brochure illustrated 2002)
Item #1763
Price: $4,500.00