red cloud (trophy)

a pale blue image of a man holding a dead eagle with red mud painted on obscuring his head and shoulders
Red cloud (trophy)
2023 cyanotype print with soilmultiples
  Artwork, image and photography © Perdita Phillipsthe nonhuman
73 x 58 cm Unique state prints, edition 6/7 availableframed $1831.70 unframed $1144 each
Cyanotype print, digital negative from Woodlines archive with local soil on Bergger Cot 320  
Exhibition: Footings2023Nyisztor Studio, Melville 
Exhibition: Rock Love2024Artgold, Boulder 
Exhibition: Collected Habitats2025Ellenbrook Arts, Ellenbrook 
 

This work was created as part of the Terrane project, an artist in residence at the Western Australian Museum of the Goldfields in 2023. The project investigated representations of the nonhuman in the WA Museum Dwyer and Mackay photographic archive; the history of bioextraction in the form of trees cut down in the surrounding landscape for energy and mining; and mineral specimens from a historical teaching collection.

This particular work is derived from historic imagery uncovered as part of research into the history of the woodlines by Phil Bianchi
Copyright © 1991-2025 Perdita Phillips