EXHIBITION NOTES
The artworks featured in this group show respond to books featured in the 2020 Newcastle Writers Festival.
Curator: Sylvia Ray

Exhibition location: Moved online due to the COVID-19 outbreak of 2020.
Exhibition dates: March 27 to April 12, 2020.

TITLE: Desert Resilience
2020. Archival digital print. 57 x 48cm

Description
Desert Resilience is an image created for the 2020 Newcastle Writers Festival Exhibition in response to the book The White Girl by Tony Birch. Initially this image began as a relatively literal depiction of a deliberately damaged object forcibly embedded in desert sand. Beside this object were the arcs created by the metronomic action of firmly rooted desert grass swept by the wind. These fugitive marks were being amplified by the raked, pre-dusk, burnt orange light.

As the work evolved, however, it ultimately became focused on more abstract notions of the resilient spirit of the book’s main character and the power of deep connection with place.

Exhibiting Artists:
Anne-Maree Hunter :: Annemarie Murland :: Brigitta Summers :: Catherine Kavanagh Di Gravio :: Chris Byrnes :: David Titchmarsh :: Jan Downes :: Juliet Ackery :: Kris Smith :: Margaret McBride :: Marion Giles :: Miranda Lawry :: Monica Oppen :: Patricia Wilson-Adams :: Paul O'Brien :: Sharon Taylor :: Sylvia Ray :: Susana Enriquez :: Trevor Weekes :: Vanessa Turton :: Varelle Hardy