February 7 – March 15, 2020

travelling blind by India Flint

Artist Talk Thursday February 27 at 6pm

Exhibition Opening Saturday February 8 at 2pm to coincide with the Sculptures and Images exhibition  (India will be in India so will not be attending the opening)

what will you drink when the river runs dry

what will you eat when the fields have been blown into the sea

where will you shelter when the last forest has been felled

how will you find your way when the stars are blanketed

will you still sing when there’s nothing but smoke

to whom will you turn when

there’s no-one but you

these are the burning questions of our time.

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).