The Sanctuary Project
Warrandyte, 2021
Supported by Manningham Arts and Creative Industries Small Fellowship
Artist's Statement
Where did you find sanctuary in 2020?
Inspired by my own experience of lockdown on Phillip Island and in Manningham shire during the global pandemic of 2020/21, the large panoramic drawings and pilgrimage walk of The Sanctuary Project, offers a restorative practice within nature, encouraging the viewer to re-center, re-calibrate and remember the places and moments of sanctuary we found in our untethered, COVID world; to re-call the green spaces we discovered; to re-consider the pace of our over-full lives.
Where did you slow down in lockdown?
Featured work: Scenic Estate Conservation Park, Phillip Island (detail) / The complete work stretches over 6 m across the front wall of the church
Featured work: Currawong Bush Park, Manningham (detail) / The complete work is printed across multiple boards that carry an image totalling 6.2m in width.
Featured work: Ramsar Wetland- Churchill Rd, Phillip Island (detail) / The complete work is printed across multiple boards that carry an image totalling 7.5m W.
Featured work: Ayr Creek - Inverloch, Gippsland (detail) / The complete work is 5m wide and printed onto swaths of cotton fabric
walking route
Video:
These large scale works were originally smaller pen and ink drawings measuring
about 1.2m in length. They were created during 2020 whilst I sat outside on the
coast of Victoria or in Currawong Bush Park, Manningham, during lockdown.