Lingering between abstraction and landscape, Marina Strocchi’s paintings are rich evocations of her experiences of living in the Central Australian desert. This survey exhibition is a study of Strocchi’s reflection on life in the Red Centre and Top End as well as its surrounds.
Melbourne-born Strocchi has lived in Central Australia for the past 20 years. Her paintings and prints are laden with iconic motifs of jabiru, fish, windmills, buffalo, feral cats, mangroves and mulga. Renditions that trace human activity, such as mining, travelling tracks, windmills and implements of industry and effort, indicate the post-colonial additions to the Territory landscape, complete with flora and fauna.
Charles Darwin University Art Collection & Art Gallery
Until 19 February, 2016
Northern Territory
The sun and the moon, 2012, acrylic on linen, 182 x 200cm
Courtesy Charles Darwin University Art Collection, CDU2875
