“Can drawings help describe the sensations of landscape?

This exhibition attempts to translate some of the beguiling effects of elemental forces, like movement, rhythm and time, adding these into landscape’s descriptive visual stock.

OTHERnorths dis-assembles the familiar signatures of landscape. It fuses new symbols and diagrams in order to celebrate some of its protean and elusive features.

The mountains of Cairns are my favourite problem. They are the site that both dwarf and elevate me. Studying their immensity and their detail, it seems the closer I get the less I see. I want to see them all at once. To bilocate. To be anywhere and never in the same place twice. Impossible.

However slow, all landscape is in a state of flux. However it appears, being in continuous movement, it is never the same. The geometries of space and time are capricious and fluid. Using a system of symbolic and vernacular abstraction as a tool for understanding my place in the landscape, can I draw while I watch it all move around me?

These exhibition drawings are hand cut from the paper they are drawn on. Some are cut from aluminium, perhaps partly sourced from the bauxite north of Cairns. They are spread across the gallery walls, kinetically describing new coordinates on an imaginary map, in a fevered vision.

Lines are not answers, they form additional contours and offer infinite renewal.” – John Eaton

..drawing abounds in, liberates an ensemble of correspondences, a network of equivalences, triggering exchanges between the inanimate and the living, the near and the far, the minuscule and the immense."
Luc Richir