Heather Barker and Jane Bear (collaboration)
Title: For the love of a lake
Statement: Life began in water. It is our responsibility to care for our waterways and wetlands so that they continue to harbour and nurture the myriad visible and invisible life forms that exist there. This work is recognition of, and a tribute to, our beautiful lakes and the water that is essential for life.
2. Heather Barker
Title: Pandora's Box
Statement: Malcolm Fraser famously said that "life wasn't meant to be easy". This was not a new realisation. The Greek myth of Pandora's Box attempts to explain why there are things like disease, hate and war in the world. When Pandora opened the box and out came disease, poverty, misery, sadness and death. Only hope was left in the box.
3. Chrissy LoRicco
Title: Linton Wings
Statement:There is a tenuous relationship between life and death. During the evening of 2 December 1998 two CFA tankers became trapped by fire. One successfully took survival action. The other was lost, engulfed and destroyed. Five volunteer firefighters died in their fire truck in the Linton bushfire in Victoria 22 years ago, lives were changed forever. The story of these brave angels is weaved into the wings, honoring my brother, one of five Geelong West firefighters who died after becoming entrapped by a wildfire after a change in wind direction on 2 December 1998.
4. Jan Virgo
Title: And the Bat said
Statement: Symbolising and highlighting the role of bats (“the flying-fox; a keystone species, a long distance, nocturnal; high canopy pollinator and seed disperser) their significance within our ecosystem; the relationship between the “koala & bat”
And the bat said….. “NO ME… NO TREE”
And the koala said…. “NO TREE… NO ME”
5. Jan Virgo
Title: The Ironbark Tree
Statement: An interpretation of the connection of a eucalyptus “Ironbark Tree” and its importance in our ecosystem. Because it flowers in winter when not many others do; symbolising and highlighting the significance between “bats & trees”; their vitally important roles; the tree providing food and blossom and the bat providing pollination; co-existing & creating a flow-on affect providing food & habitat “a place day and night” for many other animal species that rely on trees for their survival, now and into the future.. The “ironbark tree” and the “flying-foxes” are both classified as “keystone species”.
6. Chrissy LoRicco
Title: Rock Stars David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Amy Winehouse.
Statement: Music gives me life, my soundtrack is wildly varied. Learning to sew and listening to their music, inspired me to create intuitively and channel my mood into bringing to life a series of Machine Embroidered portraits that documents and celebrates the most famous, flamboyant and larger than life greats of our music history. To this day their iconic status captures their image, style and stage presence, forever unique and instantly recognisable. Their music plays on long into decades and generations to come. Chrissy's first experience using a sewing machine was in September 2019.
7. Jenny Grenfell
Title: Woman
I interrogate the female form and ideas relating to the human condition. Exploring the image surface, I move from exterior to interior forms: the skin and body organs. What interests me is the manner in which the embroidered forms introduce another layer of information, establishing new relationships with the drawn image.
8. Heather Barker
Title: Water Triptych -Water 1, Water 2, Water 3
Statement: 'To see a World in a Grain of Sand' ... or, in this case, three drops of water. Based on microscope slides of water, these drawings are a whimsical look at life in a drop of pond water, river water and sea water. They celebrate my belief that fact is stranger than fiction.
9. Angela Baldwin
Title: The Rocks Between
Statement: Small works on paper are a contemporary representation of the volcanic lava activity and the composition and disposition of the basalt rocks that shaped the landscape of the Western District. Like the origin of cells, the origin of the rocks and life on Earth millions of years ago is unfathomable to imagine and one of life’s enigmas.
10. Janet McGaw
Title: Unstable forces and regulating lines
Artist statement: This piece explores three registers of time that intersect in Victoria’s western plains: the momentary fluctuations of the weather; the regulating lines of two and a half centuries of colonisation of the land; and the deep time of geological forces that have shaped the earth for millennia
11. Angela Baldwin
Title: Cells Celebration
Statement: A microscopic abstract interpretation of a living plant cell - some alive and some in the process of decay. Cells are the story of the birth of life on Earth and are surrounded by complexity and mystery. ‘Cell Celebration’ has been created to remind us of the special magical properties and infinite pleasures cells bring to our lives.
12. Janet McGaw
This series of assemblages explores the intersecting temporalities of human-mineral relations
13. Jenny Grenfell
References our propensity to collect objects that celebrate lived experience and events that have personal meaning. Memories, collected objects and family memorabilia: children’s toys, beads, fragments of porcelain dolls, wallpaper, fabrics and braids construct an assemblage that integrates both 3D and 2D forms. Remove the lid to reveal a memory scroll.
14. Jenny Grenfell
References the concept of body organs and the topology of landscape as the source of Life. I explore ideas of the body as an outer shell, concealing organs linked by arteries and muscular structures. In mother earth, mounds, valleys, caves, rivers and lakes prevail. Body as Landscape explores and integrates these ideas in 3D form
