Gina Kalabishis, Passing Pulpit Rock – Distant Sky (After Nick Cave and Else Torp), 2017. Oil on linen, 124cm x 86cm. Eutick Memorial Still Life Award. Courtesy: the artist and Shoalhaven Regional Art Gallery.

Consisting of paintings and works on paper, these are personal works of the artist’s loving relationship with this land and its inhabitants, formed in response to a residency at Bundanon Trust and visits to the Shoalhaven region over several years.

The pieces combine ‘free style’ Australian ikebana landscape arrangements with local fauna.

Initially Gina Kalabishis set herself a journey to create works of the Shoalhaven River, from Bundanon to the sea, from the floor to the sky. However due to historic circumstances preventing her from returning to the region for two years, these visions shifted into nostalgic mementos of the romantic landscapes she walked and ran, stopping to gather foliage for arrangements under the watchful eyes of its inhabitants.

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