This week we spent some time fossicking along the beaches of Ballina. It was a lovely peaceful experience and very rejuvenating. Even when we were serenaded by the guy playing bagpipes! We are collecting items to use to make artworks for our new and exciting collaboration project about 'Place'. We are both really interested in the themes of place and home and how we connect to place and how this informs our identity, and have both explored these themes in our previous work. I am fascinated with the ways we engage with the landscape around us and caravans help to provide that vehicle for me, they signify this connection and create a vessel with which to bond to our environments. I guess this means that you will be seeing more caravans from me in this project - surprise surprise! ... but I will be creating other works as well This new project which we are calling 'Trading Place' will continue to explore these themes and how Place is important to each of us and why...what value do we place on Place? I asked the question on facebook to others who live in the same region as we do "...what is it about this region that makes it significant to you? what's the first thing you think of when you think of 'home'?..." and I got some great responses. I think the most important one and one that Cass and I both relate to is the fact that we live in Bundjalung Country - our Son's Country. The other most significant response was the colour - Green. This piece by Cass titled 'Abundance My Home' sums this up perfectly and signifies this important relationship to the place we live so well. 'Trading Place' is a very exciting project for us and we look forward to creating the works for the installation - we also can't wait to finalise the pieces and take the show to Port Augusta... bring it on!
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Clare UrquhartOne half of the Earth Fire Spirit Team, I have an obsession with transport & homes including caravans, mobile homes, temporary dwellings, etc ... and a passion for all Art! Archives
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