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Un/Seeing Un/Cultivating Un/ Caring
“Koshland is asking us to reconsider the colonial past. It is a good question and good questions often have difficult answers, a reappraisal of our national ethos, our national intelligence, our nationhood. Are we ready to have our knowledge tested? Such change will not be painless but it will be food for our souls and minds.“
Bruce Pascoe
Ellen Koshland artworks combine word and image to retrace Koshland’s steps to landscapes of First Nations Murnong cultivation. The artworks raw materials, landscape photography and typography, combine Koshland’s foundational interests in environment and literature while the production values of screen printing and painting are used in tandem to deliver a powerful message.
~ Stewart Russell