Photomedia artist Murray Fredericks’ chosen locations depict an overwhelming emptiness and powerful emotional resonance of remote land and sky.
Witness presents a selection of large-scale images from Fredericks’ Salt, Icesheet and Hector series, which showcase the majestic and awe-inspiring environs of Lake Eyre, Greenland, and the Tiwi Islands. Fredericks selects places for their vast and boundless landscape, dismissing all literal forms in favour of a more essentialist view of nature; disrupting spatial parameters and visual perception to use space as a medium for meditation, depth, emotion, experience,
and meaning.
Murray Fredericks, Salt 112, 2006, digital pigment print on cotton rag, 120 × 150cm. Courtesy the artist and Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Tasmania
Queen Victoria Museum at Inveresk
18 February to 21 May 2023
Tasmania
