The Pioneer
I love a sunburnt country
The Pioneer was an experiment in recreating the experience of the great Australian pioneers as they set out to start a new life in the harsh Australian outback. Inspired by Frederick McCubbin’s iconic painting The Pioneer and Dorothea Mackellar’s seminal poem My Country.
The collaborative work explored ideas about how societies are created, colonialism, colonisation, migration, utopianism, as well as discussing Australia’s own response to migration, refugees, population growth, Australia’s Indigenous histories and the way white settlement and Aboriginal people have interacted.
Exhibition
Pictura Australiana
Tortuga Studios, St Peters
Collaborator
Clare Holland
Medium
Mixed Media Photographic Installation
Materials
Photographic Prints, Lights
Reclaimed Windows, Ladders & Glass Doors
Reclaimed Windows, Ladders & Glass Doors
My Country by
Dorothea Mackellar
“I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror, The wide brown land for me! An opal-hearted country.
A wilful, lavish land All you who have not loved her, You will not understand though Earth holds many splendours. Wherever I may die, I know to what brown country, My homing thoughts will fly.”
Still Life Photos
