13 April to 24 May 2021
OPENING on Sunday 18 April 2021 from 2 to 4 pm. All welcome.
Covid-19 restrictions apply.
Mandy Gunn has driven and camped through many of the vast tracts of landscape that comprise 20% of our landscape: the Simpson, The Gibson and most recently The Great and Little Sandy Deserts, through which runs the 1800k of the Canning Stock Route. A spectacular area of dunes, rocky escarpments and salt lakes, it is sadly now unoccupied due to Alfred Canning’s enclosure of the 50 plus natural wells. Once known and relied on by the traditional owners their locations were forcibly disclosed to Canning and became inaccessible to them.
Throughout this visit and others Mandy sits in her car and records what goes past in her sketchbook. She also collects sand and pieces of slate since added into studio paintings trying to create the feel of the land-the roughness, the vastness, the colour and the isolation.
