Portfolio – Perdita Phillips

Way beyond: an exhibition of Australian Walking artists at Articulate Gallery Sydney 10 February – 3 March 2024 (Opening, 2pm Saturday, 10 February) With works from follow the Water 2018-2021 fieldwork/performance/photography (walking, listening, cyanotypes, algae, prints, postcards, publication), Kinjarling/Albany Featuring Pit, moss and granodiorite (Kardarup/Mt Melville) (above), Ngwayir/Western ringtail possum, estimated world population less than 8000, and Flourishing …

Way beyond (2024) Read More »

a bluish heavily cropped image of two men standing face to face viewed from the chest up

explosive rock love

a blue man in a blue image with a slight bit of mud in the top left corner

footwall

the slime returns from the dumps outside to the stopes inside — printed from a historical image from the Dwyer and Mackay collection

a detail of a blue print with red mud over 2/3 of it

red cloud (trophy)

blood of the earth on cyanotype

four rectangular blue prints on a white wall

footings (2023)

some samples from the Terrane Project exhibited in the footings show in 2023

an image divided into a map visible on the left with a blue photographic image of small shrubs printed over it on the right

Mirage (II)

Experimental application of cyanotype onto a found map.

Lake Clifton thrombolites

Central to the sixth shore project is the actual thrombolites themselves.

a black and white aerial photograph of a farm complex with an old truck and scattered trees

wheatbelt anticipatory archive I

an abandoned photographic archive: homes, land clearing, salt and lone trees

a complex grey and ochre tones image of a rock detail

Slough

an ambiguous scale effect — between crystal textures and the aerial

Timefullness

considerations of time from short-term and biological to deep time and the lithic

the word stony on a reddish brown/grey natural texture

Underfoot: sTrAtA (2023)

three perspectives on stratigraphy, deep time and biota.

a black and white print of a house on an ochre-brown background. Water marks from the drying process make it look like lightning is hitting the house

Wheatbelt Anticipatory Archive III

a series of prints where the images of 1950s farmhouses are almost overwhelmed by dust

mixed media and watercolour drawing showing a detail of a female caranabys cockatoo head

208 x forgiveness?

Specimens are dissected and fragmented. Land is cut and disassembled. What kind of apology can we offer?

$detail of a yellowish geological map painted over with large words of which only a fraction is shown$

Terrane Project

The Terrane Project Part 1 was a 2023 artist in residency at the Museum of the Goldfields in Kalgoorlie/Boulder/Karlkurla, Western Australia.The artist worked between the historic woodlines and ecological histories of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, exploring mineral forms, and representations of plants and animals in the Dwyer and Mackay photographic collection of the Western Australian Museum. Terrane: the …

Terrane Project Read More »

Archives: Portfolio

Mundaring listen/heed

Way beyond (2024)