In the Landscape, Bimblebox Nature Refuge, 2012, 2013
Bimblebox Nature Refuge – Installation in the Landscape
During the residencies at the Bimblebox Nature Refuge in 2012 and 2013 I lived, worked and sourced materials wholly within the landscape. It was a tremendous experience to embed myself into this place to work and breathe in rhythm with its rich, dynamic ecosystems.
Both years I worked with native grasses, cutting and stitching them to make sculptural forms. Through the process of making I sculpted these forms into newly born entities that shared the ancient DNA of the landscape they had grown from. They were at once of the landscape, but also now mobile within and without that landscape. These entities could travel, and they did. But first I wanted to place them within their home.
Rolled Forms
2012
Native grasses, wool yarn
Form 1: 19 x 19.5 x 18cm
Form 2: 21 x 19.5 x 21
Photo Jill Sampson
Lomandra sculpture and Gifts to the Future
2012
Photo Jill Sampson
Lomandra sculpture
Lomandra leaves and wire
Gifts to the future
Paper, string and a plethora of plant vegetating form the Bimblebox Nature Refuge
Let’s explore
2013
Native grasses, spear grass, bone, yarn
At the Bimblebox Nature Refuge.
Photo Jill Sampson
Out in the Paddock 1
2013
Wire bed stead and base, native grasses, spear grass, bone, yarn
Bimblebox Nature Refuge
Photo Jill Sampson
Out in the Paddock 2
2013
Wire bed stead and base, native grasses, spear grass, bone, yarn
Bimblebox Nature Refuge
Photo Jill Sampson
Charcoal drawing after the control burn, Bimblebox nature Refuge, 2012, artwork by Jill Sampson and Carl Hoch, photos Jill Sampson
Out and about on Bimblebox, 2013, photos Jill Sampson
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