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Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 31.5x31.5in
About this artwork
This painting is based on the optical and physical navigational challenges involved in ascending the steep Lost World Track high on the flank of kunanyi.
This unformed track is indistinct from the fallen jumble of car-sized dolerite boulders that it steeply ascends. Occasional boulders have been hand-painted with circular red and yellow track-markers to help guide the way. However, these markers are beginning to fade and are increasingly hard… to spot as they blend in visually with the circular lichen that also colonise the boulders.
As one ascends this steep track, scrambling with hands and feet over rough dolerite, avoiding the deep-dark-clefts between the rocks, one gets a sense of the mark of humans fading into the depth of an ancient, slow geology. These dolerite boulders having been formed during the Jurassic Period 170 million years ago.
This unformed track is indistinct from the fallen jumble of car-sized dolerite boulders that it steeply ascends. Occasional boulders have been hand-painted with circular red and yellow track-markers to help guide the way. However, these markers are beginning to fade and are increasingly hard… to spot as they blend in visually with the circular lichen that also colonise the boulders.
As one ascends this steep track, scrambling with hands and feet over rough dolerite, avoiding the deep-dark-clefts between the rocks, one gets a sense of the mark of humans fading into the depth of an ancient, slow geology. These dolerite boulders having been formed during the Jurassic Period 170 million years ago.
Adrian Bradury
Australia
Credentials
- Experienced Artist
- Works on commission
« I just love to play with paint! »
Adrian Bradury is an Australian painter whose works have been exhibited nationally. His most recent compositions are based on his occupation as a track worker in remote areas of Tasmania. Thanks to the unique topography of Australia, Bradury’s abstract landscapes portray steep boulder-fields as fluid entities in motion and explore the instabilities inherent in the environment, as well as the dualities of nature vs. culture and human vs. non-human. His layered works are often created in ‘frenetic sessions’ using oils and acrylic spray paint.