Beckingham’s ‘Base Camp’ attempts to return to the physical activities she undertook while on residency in Iceland in late 2013. Her difficulties and struggles when walking up a volcano crater, falling down into sulphurous clay and the disorientating experience of feeling both simultaneously high up on the earth and low beneath the massive scale of Iceland’s epic landscape are explored in her photographs and sculptures.
The gestures of falling, reaching and stepping up are implicitly referenced as a way of considering the time passed between acts and instinctive motions in the Icelandic landscape as well as the act of making this work.
MOP Projects – hosted by Galerie pompom
Until 12 October, 2014
Sydney
Action in studio for ‘Base Camp’, 2014, still image
Courtesy the artist and MOP Projects, Sydney
