Melbourne’s population is set to double in the space of fifty years and the suburban sprawl continues to spread into rural areas. Families and property developers arrive along with new shopping centres, houses and cars – territory markers on roads erasing ancient trees, creeks and grazing land to bitumen forever. With On Edge, Dianna Wells documents the tension point between urban development and the rural landscape.
Edmund Pearce Gallery
September 5 to 22, 2012
Melbourne
Untitled (Epping)(detail), 2012, Pigment print on cotton rag, 100 x 100 cm, edition of 5.
Courtesy the artist and Edmund Pearce Gallery
