It's Difficult (this Tasmanian landscape)
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.
History
Sub-type
- Visual Artwork
Medium
oil and acrylic paint over digital print and lacquerDepartment/School
Office of the School of Creative Arts and MediaPublisher
Bendigo Art GalleryPublication status
- Published