‘We are truly a species touched by fire’ – Stephen J. Pyne, Fire: A Brief History
One year on from the devastating 2019-20 bushfire season, the works of 15 artists frame an understanding of what fire historian Stephen J. Pyne describes as the Pyrocene – a new, incendiary era; and engage with closely related themes of global warming and climate threat in Queensland. Curated by Tim Riley Walsh, the exhibition considers the damaging legacies of colonialism, depictions of (dis)connection with the environment and fire’s capacity for rejuvenation.
Anne Wallace, Fire in the Hills, 2019, oil on linen, 61.4 x 92cm Collection of Philip Leeson and Lee Erickson, Canberra. Courtesy the artist, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney and Institute of Modern Art, Queensland
Institute of Modern Art
30 January to 20 March 2021
Queensland
