travelling blind by India Flint

Artist Talk Thursday February 27 at 6pm

FREE EVENT

travelling blind :: a talk

India Flint, known for her development of the ecoprint technique now in use around the globe, uses her teaching practice to support the installation of exhibitions that create environments and tell stories.  Raised by an earth scientist who foretold climate change 40 years ago, her work has long reflected her environmental concerns.

Exhibition dates February 7 – March 15, 2020    

travelling blind by India Flint

India Flint lives and works on the eastern flanks of the Mount Lofty Ranges. Her work conflates the visual and written poetics of place and memory, using walking, drawing, assemblage, dyeing, stitch, image-making and text as a means of mapping country, recoding and recording responses to landscape - working with cloth, paper, stone, windfall biological material, water, minerals, bones, the discarded artefacts and hard detritus of human habitation, the local weed burden. She negotiates a path between installation, printing, painting, drawing, writing and sculpture; philosophically rooted in topophilia (the love of place). Fellow artist Chris Orchard has described the work as “using the earth as printing plate, and time as the press”.

Flint has been engaged with plant dyes and earth pigments primarily in the visual arts and occasionally also in costume design for contemporary dance for over thirty years and is represented in museum collections in Australia and overseas. Her knowledge and research has been shared in several books (most notably Eco Colour 2008 & Second Skin 2011; Murdoch Books) and through a domestic and international workshop program (since 1998).