Central Australia

The paintings were made following a four month period of travel in Australia during 1992–3, and exhibited in Melbourne, Liverpool, MOMA Wales, and the Commonwealth Institute, London. Simon Pierse wrote: 'The landscape of central Australia is unique. No other place on Earth has such a weird range of geological forms. Mountains half hidden in sand, craters, canyons, and monoliths which seem to have dropped from nowhere into the landscape and are explicable only to geologists and Dreamtime story tellers. ... A horizon that runs as straight as a die, the view of a parched prehistoric ocean floor now scattered with the low humps of spinifex grass. ... In the late afternoon we walked out into the silent and alien landscape on a wooden boardwalk raised six inches above the sands where, like the moon, footprints remain forever.' (Red Sands, Blue Gums, 1995).

Central Australia Gallery