The epic drawing and erasure performance Wreck is the most ambitious project of Hobart-based Lucienne Rickard’s twenty-three-year career.
Rickard has a long relationship with Shearwaters, a group of bird species under threat. In recent years she has been photographing their dead bodies washed up on the shores of Tasmania. This exhibition can be understood as a memorial to the endangered Shearwaters as Rickard lovingly and meticulously draws these seabirds and then, responding to the horror of their current situation, erases the drawings; symbolising fragility and the finality of extinction.
Lucienne Rickard, Wreck. Photography documentation by Anders Sune Berg. Courtesy the artist and Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Melbourne
Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
18 April to 24 May 2025
Melbourne
