SPACE 3 : CARMEL COSGROVE
Exhibition dates. 26 April - 7 May 2023
Opening Reception : Thursday 27 April 2023, 6:00 - 8.30pm
My work explores the relationship between and my emotional connection to the themes of landscape and place. I am fascinated by the cultural and environmental changes within local urban locations and remote landscapes.
Inspired by fleeting glimpses of graffiti within dense local bushland, foraged native flora are suspended in my studio and overlayed with projections of video and photographs collected from visits to Central Australia’s Larapinta (traditional Arrernte land), the Maribyrnong River (on the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation), and Yarra Bend trails (traditional country of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung).
Recreating landscapes by manipulating overlapping layers of physical and digital media allows me to explore the concept of displacement through the juxtaposition of nature and graffiti. Merging these elements together engages me in a physical sense to discover what these changes mean and how I view the ever-changing layers of the landscape.
@cosgrovecarmel