LIE OF THE LAND
ANNA EPHRAIM
SEPTEMBER 4 - 27
Lie of the land is a series of paintings inspired by four years of visiting
the Alpine region of Victoria. A number of these visits have been for an artist’s
camp in Falls Creek. Reading the land– the shape of a rock, the colour
of the sky, the texture of a tree, are reminders of a particular time and place.
"When I am not here I might dream of this landscape. In my dream I would
recognise it. I would recognise it, not in terms of previous events, but by
its colour, the forms of its hills, its textures and its scale. I would recognise
it before I could distinguish between a cherry and an apricot tree. Sometimes
perhaps I would recognise it just by virtue of the sky above it – the
range of its blues across its immense distance, and the characteristic deployment
of the clouds whose shadows pass across the plain. The sharp edges of these
shadows reveal what is literally the lie of the land" - John Berger, The
Look of Things 1972
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