Postgraduate Summer Program: assessment exhibitions

Sally Clarke The Transplanted Bush

This exhibition is the culmination of Clarke’s four-year research undertaken in the Blue Mountains and offers a fresh perspective on the subject of Australian landscape painting and the role it has played in the shaping the Australian national identity. The bush, an anti-city space, has become a sort of brand which is often regarded as the real Australia. However, with her ways of seeing conditioned by the urban environment, Clarke never felt that the bush as a place where she belongs.
In this body of work, she does not really intend to redefine the Australian identity, but rather, to disrupt, question, and refurbish the brand.

This is a 2008 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Event