Damon Bird makes images that come out of his interactions with the natural world as part of daily life where he lives in southern lutruwita.
Working across painting, printmaking and works on paper, he makes use of traditional printmaking techniques, large brush and wash drawings on paper and wood, and variations of mediums across ink, oil paint, and hand ground pigment washes.
Damon’s practice is not to make images of things as you would normally encounter them, but of accumulated and overlapping thoughts, interactions, ideas, moments. Influenced by the surrounding environment, he is also preoccupied with its history. Notions of colonialism, ancestry, mythology, belonging and human impact all bleeding into his experience of the landscape and the conglomerate images that arise from it.
This exhibition at the Schoolhouse Gallery explores what a sense of place consists of, how it is constructed, and what kind of poetry and connection lies therein.
Exhibition time/day: 10am-4pm, Wednesday-Sunday