Image: Katherine White, Drift, 2022. Cyanotype on paper, 40 x 50 cm. Image courtesy of Brenton McGeachie.
Katherine White
Gallery 3
Friday 12 May - Sunday 4 June
Opening Thursday 11 May 2023, 6pm - 8pm
The work is about the feeling of drifting on waves of uncertainty, with climate change experienced first hand through bushfires. It encompasses a series of cyanotypes on paper.
Since the bushfires, drifting with anxiety about the future, aware of the world's climate on the brink of catastrophe. Have we already reached tipping point? How do we live now? The focus shifts between alarming world news and smaller personal concerns.
Looking for solace in the beauty of nature and the garden. Down at the beach, the sea has been polluted for the last three years. Bushfires making the sea grey with ash and burnt debris. Flooding rains and rivers causing the water to be brown and unhealthy.
Once swimming in the ocean was a source of relaxation, peace and refreshment. Now trying to remember the sensation of flow and calm, to re-create body/mind sensations of floating on your back and diving under water, moving freely from human to sea creature.
Sloughing off winter skin, swimming again in clear sea water.
Click the link below to read a review of Drift by Con Boekel.
