Floating Fossil

Abstract

The work evolved from visits to the Age of Fishes Museum at Canowindra, NSW, Australia and it explores a fossil image translated through drawing into woven tapestry. The work embodies ideas about the distant past and our inability to fully visualise this as although we have remains, museum exhibits and artists’ impressions, the reality of the past will always be beyond our grasp. The floating form alludes to a state of impermanence, transition and dislocation while the colour palette references an intangible space between water, earth and sky.

‘Here and Now’ is the first major exhibition of international contemporary tapestry since 1994 and is curated by Lesley Millar in partnership with NCCD. Show more