Exhibition
1: ‘ Bird, Animal, Insect, and Plant Drawings
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Pencil and Ink
Drawings 1991 –
This series of
pencil and ink drawings highlight largely, but not exclusively,
Tasmania’s beautiful and often unique fauna, flora,
fungi, insect, and birdlife.
The main objective for producing these drawings was
to help raise awareness of this island’s exquisite
natural treasures and their increasing fragility.
The original drawings were executed in coloured pencil
with a black ink overlay. Advanced technical ink pens
with traditional steel nibs were used. These pens are
incredibly precise and are usually used for drafting
and architectural work. I used only the smallest nibs
– the 0.13 mm and the 0.18 mm line width. The
0.13 mm nib is incredibly fine, very delicate and often
frustratingly temperamental – such a fine nib
is very easily blocked with fibre and dust.
The prints of the original drawings are produced using
archival quality inks on archival quality paper, and
are printed at exactly the same size as the original
drawing to demonstrate the delicacy and intricacy of
the original work.
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Exhibition
2: ‘ Indigenous Soul Drawings ‘
Pencil Drawings
1986 – 2012
‘ Indigenous
soul :- Martin Prechtel describes the indigenous soul
as the trans-human, ecological, spiritual essence that
resides within all beings. The indigenous soul enters
the human being in a personal form, known to us as “our
nature“ but it is older than the individual, older
than one’s ancestral lineage, it cannot be destroyed,
it is always present, and it is always beckoning us
back home, telling us we belong to the Earth. ‘
Tina Alice Amorok ( 2007 ) The Eco-trauma and Eco-recovery
of Being. A Dissertation.
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