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Ross Booker: Remnants of an inland sea
October 5, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Onespace Gallery is proud to present Remnants of an inland sea, a solo exhibition of recent work by Ross Booker. Ross Booker is an Australian landscape artist based in Brisbane.
Remnants of an inland sea continues Booker’s exploration of the rugged Australian outback with a stunning new body of work. His paintings, and more recent ‘sky-drawings’, reflect upon the ephemeral nature of the planet and the ever-changing landscape brought about by both natural phenomena and the human footprint. They represent a fresh new direction but continue his obsession with topography and geological formations. Booker demonstrates an acute understanding of the staggering time scales involved in the slow formation of the earth and the evolution of inland Australia. He also makes us reflect on the transience of the natural world which is fast becoming more poignant in this epoch of human habitation.
In 2008, Booker made his first venture into remote central Australia, an excursion that completely changed the focus of his art practice. His immersion in the landscape through camping, walking, drawing and photography have fed his practice since then.
More recently the Kimberley, Ikara-Flinders Ranges, Kakadu and Arnhem Land have joined Booker’s list of favourite places that have informed this exhibition.
Bookers’ mark-making forms layers of a landscape and acts as a form of documentation, assisting his understanding of the environment. Equipped with a camera and sketchbook, Booker intuitively absorbs parts of the vast Australian landscape he encounters. As Booker suggests:
“The isolation out there is profound — the remoteness and the stillness of the place. There are no distractions; it’s just you and the landscape. Through the meditative act of walking for days in the Centre, you lose your sense of self, you become part of the landscape — you actually find yourself and come home to what is important.”
Independent curator and catalogue essay writer Clare Williamson, describes Booker’s practice as ‘showing us that the earth is everything to us – and nothing. It is here for eternity – and about to disappear.’
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