Cassie Lynch, Rebecca Orchard, Andrew Williams and Mei Swan Lim.
These artists have come together to translate their own meaning of the phrase ‘Deep Heritage’. Lynch is in the business of decentralising and disorientating the colonial perception of Noongar Country. Her writing explores the narratives of geomorphology through the lens of Noongar culture, booting her readers off the space-time continuum into the every- when of Indigenous deep time. For Orchard, ‘rocks are records’. Her work takes pressings of rocks from their landscape, thus mapping them in time, recording and expressing those layers in clay and paper. Williams, enamoured with sandstone and recognising the material in stately and polished civic buildings around Perth city - provides a counterpoint to the Western-centric ideas of heritage. Lim’s textiles trace the records of of coral fossil patterns left in Tamala Limestone, the forms printed like a scroll to be read. The exhibition enquires into our geological inheritance and wonders how geology will record us, while we learn to situate ourselves within the future fold of a rock.
Cassie Lynch, Rebecca Orchard, Andrew Williams and Mei Swan Lim.
These artists have come together to translate their own meaning of the phrase ‘Deep Heritage’. Lynch is in the business of decentralising and disorientating the colonial perception of Noongar Country. Her writing explores the narratives of geomorphology through the lens of Noongar culture, booting her readers off the space-time continuum into the every- when of Indigenous deep time. For Orchard, ‘rocks are records’. Her work takes pressings of rocks from their landscape, thus mapping them in time, recording and expressing those layers in clay and paper. Williams, enamoured with sandstone and recognising the material in stately and polished civic buildings around Perth city - provides a counterpoint to the Western-centric ideas of heritage. Lim’s textiles trace the records of of coral fossil patterns left in Tamala Limestone, the forms printed like a scroll to be read. The exhibition enquires into our geological inheritance and wonders how geology will record us, while we learn to situate ourselves within the future fold of a rock.
Deep Heritage was supported by City of Perth.