Tineke Van der Eecken explores the tributary systems within our culture and environment in ‘Tributaries’. This exhibition presents jewellery, sculptures, and plastinates formed by corrosion casting, made in collaboration with the University of Ghent Animal Morphology Museum. These plastinates include a sheep’s head, a pony’s foot, a dog’s lung tree and a horse’s head. Alongside a selection of arresting photographs, they illustrate the fragility and degradation of Western Australia’s landscapes, flora and fauna, and the detrimental impact that colonisation and development have upon them.
Tineke Van der Eecken, Bush Fire, 2021, copper and steel, 27 × 40 × 9.5cm. Photograph: Yasmin Eghtesadi. Courtesy the artist and Mundaring Arts Centre, Western Australia
Mundaring Arts Centre
6 November to 19 December 2021
Western Australia
