Details
Date: February – March 2024
Location: Glenlyon
Fund: Quick Response Grants – Regional Arts Fund
Grant amount: $3,000
Why was this project supported? Increased employment opportunities for artists.
What part of this project was funded? This grant funded travel costs, materials and booking fees.
Project
In March 2024, Minaal Lawn was a successful applicant of the Quick Response Grants which allowed her to develop and refine her practice, taking it to national level. Verdant is an exhibition of collaborative works presented by contemporary artists Minaal Lawn and Sarah Parkes.
Minaal Lawn (Dja Dja Warrung, Central Victoria) working predominantly with ceramics, explores cultural identity and belonging through her practice. Sarah Parkes (Gunai/Kurnai, South Gippsland) knots and weaves narratives of place and home into her sculptural rope works. Collectively, they draw on the complex relationship they have to the rural landscape they inhabit and expressed this exchange of ideas through a series of works specifically created for Melbourne Design Week 2024.
The undeniable influence of the artists’ rural landscape and its beauty is explored both through material and narrative. Repurposed silage wrap, the sporadic lilac hues of grass seed and familiar elements, such as the fence, the tree, form reference points in their understanding. Verdant merges not only the artists’ practices, but their personal topography of life and of quiet observations, while showing us how essential a collaborative approach is to navigate new terrain.
