GASH

This video artwork playfully challenges colonial Australian cinematic myths which demonise our landscapes, such as ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ (Weir 1975) where the rock was accused of consuming the schoolgirls - rendering the landscape crimescene and murderer. GASH (2016) is a deeper exploration of the artists personal notion of identity. A life-size waterfall of exposed roots pulsing, quivering and twitching - we are inside a scar of compulsions. I celebrate diversity by creating worlds full of beautiful, hybrid monstrosities that seduce, beguile and disturb. These landscapes represent my experience of forests - vast in scale and detail, the same forms captured from different angles and perspectives - all shown at once - all connected. Through the addition of sound and motion these landscapes come alive and embody the typically hidden respiratory, digestive and reproductive botanical compulsions of these places.