Kangaroo Island is hurting right now, the bush fires ravaged its land and devastated its whole community. As a past Island resident, this was a unique opportunity to immerse myself back in the Island culture to observe, discuss, and research the effect of this natural disaster on its regional community. This residency provided room for timely conversations, regular informal local artist exchanges, working with local schools, and community engagement. I was mostly excited by the challenge of reaching out and touching the whole community through art making!
I primarily work site specifically, building installations experientially that modify space and comment on our past histories. I am fascinated with materials that come from the landscape; that wear the landscape embedded in their surface. I find myself constantly drawn to regional Australia, emotively responding to these lived experiences.
Embedded Landscape
150cm x 460cm
2020
burnt and smashed xanthorrhoea leaves from the 2019/20 Kangaroo Island bush fire, paper
photography Grant Hancock
Fragile - Out of the Ashes
2020
Burnt stump from the 2019/20 Kangaroo Island bush fire, steel
photography Grant Hancock
Out of the Ashes #1
2020
burnt, broken & smashed xanthorroea leaves from 2019/20 Kangaroo Island bushfires on paper
110 x 150cm
photographer Grant Hancock
Out of the Ashes #10
2021
burnt, broken & smashed xanthorroea leaves from 2019/20 Kangaroo Island bushfires, burnt wool clips - remnants of KI historic shearing shed, burnt nails remnants of KI potato shed on paper
110 x 150cm
photographer Grant Hancock
Out of the Ashes #11
Out of the Ashes #12
Flare Ups
2021
burnt, broken & smashed xanthorroea leaves from 2019/20 Kangaroo Island bushfires on paper
A4 each
photographer Grant Hancock
Fragile
2020
Burnt pine stumps from the 2019/20 Kangaroo Island bush fire, steel
photography Grant Hancock
150 x 180cm
Out of the Ashes II and III
2020
Ash and rust from 2019/2020 Kangaroo Island bushfires
Photographer Grant Hancock
True Blue
300cm x 1000cm
