Catherine van Wilgenburg,

Images (art, colour, performance)

 

 

Seeing the southern light I changed; jolted by the huge skies and stretched horizons, fractured between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal histories.

 

My art making is a tool to scratch beneath the surface, to connect with land in my own backyard, immersing myself in real Australia. It's a migrant's journey in painting, performance art, installation and community cultural development: site specific, inspired by deepening relationships with Aboriginal elders and environmental scientists.

 

Its purpose is to connect us all - business, government and community - to the land through commissioned and other art works, colour and performance.