Annika Romeyn presents ‘Ghosts’, recent work inspired by rock formations and geomorphic structures of the Golden Gully area in Hill End, NSW. Left raw and damaged after colonial mining – historical evidence of economic greed and human disregard for nature – today the landscape continues its slow reparation and reclamation process; evident in Romeyn’s multi-layered drawings and printmaking processes. Her faded reprints, or ‘ghosts’, evoke a sense of memory, distance and ambiguity, enhanced by carbon and white pencil markings that reanimate and revive the natural world.
Annika Romeyn, Ghost 1, 2017, pencil and monotype on paper, 228 x 168cm. Courtesy the artist and Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Flinders Lane Gallery
1 to 19 May, 2018
Melbourne
