Two fast #1-5 - 2021
After receiving these marsupial parchments and considering that they were collected as road-kill by Grace Pundyk in Tasmania my focus stayed on the fact that thousands of animals have gruesome deaths on our roads.
Touching these skins connected me in a deeper way and made me consider the silent nature of these animals while working in my studio. I regularly see these gentle animals grazing from my home and between having an ancestor who was a trapper in Tasmania to friends that are devoted animal rescuers I invested time into thinking more deeply about these wallabies.
So a slow practice of drawing and painting palimpsest suited my approach. With the rubbing of the skins to remove all traces of the hairs by Grace and the exposure of the skins’ original birthmarks I felt I was superimposing something that had been effaced. Touching the skins and fur connect me to those lives.
If only us humans could move more slowly.
Lorraine Biggs
Lorraine Biggs has exhibited widely as a painter but works across various media to exhibtion and commission works. Her work is nature based with considerations of issues suc as biodiversity in our environment, endangered species and global warming. Her work is represented in many public collections including AGWA, Artbank, University of Tasmania and University of WA.