Terri Brooks: update... The River and 5 Miles from the Sea exhibitions

update... The River and 5 Miles from the Sea exhibitions

Shelter, at 'Westbend', Merri Creek

Met today with the Wurundjeri Council and two archaeologists at the disputed Batman Treaty Site at 'Westbend', Merri Creek. The meeting was to investigate the shelter I found while researching the site for the catalogue essay 'Waterways', River exhibition at Bundoora Homestead and to explore the site in general....

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'Brooks absorbs the physical qualities of the built environment, delighting in the accidental textures and material surfaces of concrete, building materials or bitumen roads. She is not a landscape painter, but works to reflect the truth and beauty of the utilitarian surfaces around her. Her canvases offer a sort of spatial dislocation or inverse trompe-l'œil of reality, as isolated sections of the everyday are reborn within the gallery setting… As replicas of the factual world, in all its decay and innate ordinariness, these paintings subvert the idiom of preciousness' Phe Luxford, 2012.