May 28, 2004
Regionalism: Coorong
These images by David Hume are familar to those flying over the Murray Mouth:
David Hume, Coorong, acrylic painting on galvanised steel, 1998, from Beneath the Beyond 2, 2000. (Adelaide Festival of Arts).
Despite the abstraction and beautiful form they represent the particularities of place: Lake Alexandrina at the top and the Coorong wetlands on the right.
The catalogue essay talks in terms of the paintings "suggesting tunnels or shafts with a surrounding vivid blue expanse. Here, Hume seems to be exploring the interior and the exterior strata of the land and their complex interrelationship." What we have is sea, sand hills and fresh water and agriculture that gives rise to a complex hydrology. The Ramsar-listed Coorong wetlands, which are home to migratory birds from Northern Asia, are dying due to lack of water flowing down the River Murray.
David Hume, Younghusband Peninsula, acrylic painting on galvanised steel, 1998, from Beneath the Beyond 2, 2000. (Adelaide Festival of Arts).
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Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at May 28, 2004 02:13 PM | TrackBack