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On the rocky shore between North Durras and Pebbly
beach is a place where waves swish gently into shore,
rolling pebbles backwards and forwards in their own
small pools. Over time, the movements of the waves have
allowed the pebbles to wear long sinuous grooves in
the rock below - rock and water-worn pathways in stone.
The Pathways series
I work with a group of Canberra textile artists
called tACTile. The others are - Dianne Firth, Helen
Gray, Beth Miller and Beth and Trevor Reid (click here
to visit the tACTile
website).
We have put together a large body of work - fifteen
two metre square quilts and a large collaborative piece
of 280 twenty centimetre quilts in an exhibition called
Pathways.
The exhibition opens at the Pinnacles Gallery in Townsville
in early February and will travel in Australia for a
year.
In its most literal sense a pathway is a way of moving
through landscape. Walking to take photographs through
Australia's forests and beaches, the paths offered constant
choices and decisions to be made. Pathways offer access
but diverge, converge, and diverge again. Taking one
track means leaving another for another time. They are
for me, a metaphor for moving through life. What is
offered in my images are snapshots taken en route.
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