Twelve months in the making, Not the Way Home | 13 Artists Paint the Desert, is a touring exhibition of new work by contemporary Australia artists who spent two-weeks in the Australian desert.
In May 2011, Artist Profile Magazine led 13 artists to Fowlers Gap – an Arid Zone Research Station managed by the University of New South Wales, 90 minutes west of Broken Hill – for a two-week arts laboratory. Sponsored by internationally renowned Winsor & Newton, who supplied a wide variety of fine art materials, the artists were invited to embark on a journey to the outback and create a body of work in response to their time in the landscape.
The project was documented daily on a project blog, managed by ABC Open producer Sean O’Brien, then chronicled in Issue 18 of the magazine through a series of essays by writer James Compton and studio interviews with its editor Owen Craven – also the exhibition’s curator – both of whom accompanied the artists on the tour. These two media platforms allowed readers the unique opportunity to follow the artists’ creative journeys from the very beginnings and back into the studios, where they tackled with their ideas and memories of the space and place to make a series of work for exhibition. Duck Print Fine Art also joined the tour, producing a box set of prints – one print by each artist.
Not the Way Home, which first opened at Sydney’s S.H. Ervin Gallery in February, sees the final installment of project – an exhibition of work from each of the participating artists. Opening on Friday November 16, at the New England Regional Art Museum is the exhibition’s second public institution destination.
February 3, 2012
New England Regional Art Museum
Armidale
Sponsors:
Artist Profile
Winsor & Newton
Image:
Margaret Ackland, Horizon Line, 2011-12, oil on linen, 60 x 90cm
Courtesy the artist and Flinders Land Gallery, Melbourne
