In The Water Diaries, Brisbane-based artist Ross Booker presents a new body of text-based works on aluminium, with water as the genesis of the exhibition.
Growing up on the coast, water has always been central to Booker’s life—both culturally and physically. Now living beside Maiwar (Brisbane River) and swimming laps at his local pool, Booker describes himself as “a person of both salt and chlorine.”
These works ‘tether’ the vast subject of water, inviting the eye to wander into puzzles of text and form, much like looking into water itself—divining meaning from surface reflections and glimpses of what lies beneath. The circular text works pose enigmatic questions, evoke phrases, and open socio-cultural considerations of how people and nature might interact, echo, and merge.
