Tarkine in motion

Over 3 days each Easter since 2015 around 100 artists, supported by The Bob Brown Foundation have immersed themselves in the wild and unique landscapes of takyana/Tarkine, an area of diverse natural and cultural values that is largely unprotected/under-protected from exploitation of resources and environmentally damaging behaviors. The exhibiting artists bring together a multi-platform exhibition showcasing their interpretation of this place. The artists resulting work is brought together for a collaborative exhibition sharing personal experiences of threatened landscapes, from the rugged and serene rainforest, across vast button grass plains, to the jagged rocky shore that shreds the wild Southern Ocean.
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2017

​2017 was my first year participating in Tarkine in Motion, my experience of the coastal dune systems was a revelation. The winds of takayna expose an inhabited landscape beneath the coastal dunes of Tasmania’s west Coast; accumulated human experience, patterns of shell, stone and bone reveal a way of life that came before.

2018

Projects from 2018 explored Tarkine In Motion participants connection to the environments and landscapes the engaged with and feel connected too. As well as different forms of cultural landscape exposed on the coastline.

2019/2020

The work I produced in 2019 and 2020 continued to focus on connection to environment but centered on front line forest defense activists and the forests that were under direct threat of clear fell logging. 

2021

The geological formations outcropping across takayna, connecting back to the Gondwana super continent provided inspiration for my work in 2021 

Following Paleocurrents
These rocks were formed eon’s ago at the bottom of an ancient ocean, their internal structures were created by the currents of those waters when life on earth was entirely microscopic. These strata formed the foundation of the Gondwanan Supercontinent, then enduring through the tectonic separation of Tasmania as an island. The three images record rock outcrops from distant locations across the takayna/Tarkine region, they formed during the same Neo-Proterozoic (Late Precambrian) period, connecting landscapes through time and space, supporting diverse and abundant ecologies. 

2022

Gondwanan connections to the current biodiversity of takayna directed my work for 2022. I photograph a range of Gondwanan plants species still growing across different environments of takayna.