AMANDA STUART and HAYLEY LANDER - MARCH '21
March 2021
Hayley Lander, 'New nature II' (2018), oil on board, 42 x 120cm.
Curious Nature
Featuring recent work by Amanda Stuart and Hayley Lander
Curious Nature brings together the work of Canberra based artists Amanda Stuart and Hayley Lander. Their work shares a deep engagement with the natural world and addresses the complexities and far reaching consequences of human impact in the Australian landscape. Both artists are inspired by the potential of found and collected objects to tell stories that describe the delicate balance at play in our urban and natural environments.
About Amanda Stuart
Amanda Stuart is a Canberra based visual artist, writer, curator and art educator. Her sculptural works produce objects that sit in the environment to invite psychic re-imaginings of old, unhealed wounds between humans and unwanted animals. Embedded in a materiality of the Australian regional landscape and its fauna, her works refer to the social, cultural, ethical and political difficulties surrounding contested estranged human animal/relations within contested landscapes. Stuart’s practice embraces drawing, installation, object making and in-situ photographic documentation.
Stuart has a PhD in Visual Arts (Sculpture) and a Bachelor of Science (Land Management) – the latter of which quietly informs her art practice and concerns regarding relations with country. She currently lectures in the Environment Studio and Foundation workshops at the ANUSOA, and co-coordinates The Balawan Elective, with co-founders Amelia Zaraftis and Heike Qualitz.
Installation view of Anything but barren, 2019 - 21, Drawings - Tannic acidfrom Eucalyptusmelliodora, giftedochre and Floor piece, 2019, Rusted mild steel,historic fence posts,gifted ochre.
About Hayley Lander
Hayley Lander explores how landscape painting processes can be used to convey the complexities of the relationship between humanity and nature. Sites of human generated change in Canberra’s suburban environment are inspiration for her artwork. Experimentation with the application of paint draws a connection between the construction of an environment with her own construction of a painting as the materials are manipulated on the surface of the support.
Installation view of Remnant, 2018-19, Oil on board, 42 x 120cm, framed.
Exhibition continues 16 March - 30 April 2021