"Drawing Dust - Altitude: Works by Catherine Woo, Damian Smith, Jayne Dyer, Karen Casey, Martin King, Tony Scott"
2003-10-07 until 2003-10-19
Red Gate Gallery
Beijing, , CN

Drawing Dust is an exhibition of work by six Australian artists exploring impermanence and memory through their diverse creative approaches to land and country. Artists included are Catherine Woo, Damian Smith, Jayne Dyer, Karen Casey, Martin King, Tony Scott. The exhibition is touring to Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Melbourne, Sydney.

Evocative of stillness, a slowing down of time, of neglect and decay dust settles, drifts, gathers and protects. Seeking solitude and contemplation, artists have long sought the remoteness of the bush and the desert, their voice and vision traveling beyond the confines of their isolation. Drawing Dust is an intervention into stilled space, announcing a journey into remote and distant lands.

Dust blowing across the surface of a country becomes the spiritual and metaphoric crossing of the land, evoking movement, change, distillation and essence. Dream-time spirits exist as a resonance in the land. Past becomes present, memories remain, sand paintings encoded with meaning scatter in the wind, suggesting the ephemeral nature of things.

Drawing Dust is Supported by:
Arts Victoria – International Program: Export & Touring Fund
Australian Embassy and Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
China International Exhibition Agency

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