This photographic and sculptural work by Lynne Roberts-Goodwin, researched and developed through a residency at Bundanon, New South Wales, engages in meteorological and sensorial studies of atmospheric envelopment, focused on Shoalhaven’s unique topography – documenting extreme storms, turbulence, and shifting air currents, what the artist views as ‘performative acts’.
Lynne Roberts-Goodwin, ungrounded moment 9, 2024, inkjet print on Archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Metallic 310gsm, edition 8 + 2 AP, 100 × 158.34cm (framed). Courtesy the artist
Balancing Acts draws on multiple levels of vertical space, from the solidity of the ground to the vast atmospheric expanse above, physically and emotionally. Through images of intense sparks of lightning to the folds of fallen parachutes, these works interrogate the tenuous equilibrium between stability and flux, anchoring and drifting, orientation and disorientation, beauty and terror, presence and absence, and challenge how we understand and measure verticality, and negotiate transitions between control and chaos – the presence of bare feet entangled in deflated chute material exposes our vulnerabilities as well as our strengths.
Lynne Roberts-Goodwin, shape of things 027, 2024, inkjet print on Archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag ® Metallic 310gsm, edition 5 + 2 AP, 100 × 150cm (framed). Courtesy the artist and VOID_MELBOURNE, Melbourne
Shoalhaven Regional Gallery
15 March to 10 May 2025
New South Wales
