EDGELANDS EXHIBITION 2025
My Edgelands exhibition will be running at Inner North Brewing in Brunswick in the third quarter of 2025. My Edgelands body of work examines the changing fringes of Melbourne these edges are becoming more amorphous, heading towards Ballarat and Geelong there isn’t much if any rural space. With a population which has grown by two million since I arrvied here in 1998 there has been dramatic changes in the fabric of the city a good deal of this has been in the inner city where the density of buildings has changed and it feels like Melbourne is beginning to catch up with the population density of other bigger cities around the world, but even more interestingly for me are the fringes. These fringes present interesting challenges, both aesthetically and practically,
Thanks to Inner North Brewing for hosting and to Image Science for their exemplary fine art printing and service.
“This peculiar landscape is only the latest version of an interfacial rim that has always separated settlements from the countryside. In our own age, however, this zone has expanded vastly in area, complexity and singularity. Huge numbers of people now spend much of their time living, working or moving within or through it.
Yet for most of us, most of the time, this mysterious no man’s land passes unnoticed: in our imaginations, as opposed to our actual lives, it barely exists. When we deliberately visit it, this is often for mundane activities like taking the car to be serviced or household waste to the disposal plant, which we choose to discount as part of our lives. If we actually live or work there, we usually wish we did not."
Contact me if you'd like to attend the opening or have more information.
