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It's Difficult (this Tasmanian landscape)

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posted on 2024-10-28, 00:40 authored by Neil HaddonNeil Haddon

For the migrant, place and belonging are continually and perpetually negotiated in relation to a former, other, or distant place. In visual art, migratory aesthetics offers a platform to explore the complexities of this situation.

The painting, It's Difficult (this Tasmanian landscape), features dislocated imagery that merges past and present times. It compounds memories, associations, and representations formed elsewhere with those of the place of new encounter. The transitory, unfixed imagery reflects an experience of migration and how it intertwines with the fraught histories of lutruwita/Tasmania. The painting includes fragments of landscape paintings by Paul Gauguin and Gustave Dore that serve as meaningful waymarkers of a migratory journey from the United Kingdom via Spain to lutruwita. In essence, It’s Difficult is a migrant’s view of a place out of place; a landscape of continual arrival.

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Sub-type

  • Visual Artwork

Medium

oil and acrylic paint over digital print and lacquer

Department/School

Office of the School of Creative Arts and Media

Publisher

Bendigo Art Gallery

Publication status

  • Published

Event title

The Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize

Event Venue

Bendigo Art Gallery, 42 View Street, Bendigo, VIC, 3550, Australia

Date of Event (Start Date)

2023-11-25

Date of Event (End Date)

2024-02-18

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Copyright 2023 Neil Haddon. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial, NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

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