Featured Image: Imants Tillers, Nature speaks: HK, 2021, synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 16 canvas boards, nos. 112766-112781, 101.6 x 142.2 cm (overall installed size). Courtesy: the artist and Bett Gallery.

Water[shed] an exhibition conceived by OUTSIDE THE BOX / Earth Arts Rights and presented in collaboration with Bett Gallery to support the Restore Pedder campaign.

50 national and international artists (one for each year since Lake Pedder was lost) have accepted an invitation to make work that explores the notions of watershed, ecosystem restoration, re-wilding, loss, grief, hope and of course to celebrate the original Lake Pedder. ⁣

In the summer of 2021-22 it will be 50 years since Lake Pedder was flooded by a Hydro-Electric Power Scheme. This jewel of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, with its iconic wide, pink quartzite beach was swallowed up when more than 240 square kilometres of Tasmania’s wilderness drowned. The art and imagery created at the time continues to capture our imagination. The campaign to restore Lake Pedder is a powerful symbol of hope in increasingly troubling times.

A Published Event: Peter Adams, Rick Amor, Joan Baez, Michaye Boulter & Linda Fredheim, Pat Brassington, Tim Burns, Lou Conboy & Tom O’Hern, Amanda Davies, Helena Demczuk, Julie Gough, Piers Greville, Guerrilla Girls, Neil Haddon, Fiona Hall, Patrick Hall, Marian Hosking, Locust Jones, David Keeling, Janet Laurence, Sam Leach, Sue Lovegrove, Euan Macleod, Sara Maher, Noel McKenna, Mish Meijers, Ashlee Murray, Brigita Ozolins, Geoff Parr, Joan Ross, Troy Ruffles, Michael Schlitz, Mike Singe, Valerie Sparks, David Stephenson, Heather B Swann, Wilma Tabacco, Stephanie Tabram, Sue Jane Taylor, Claudia Terstappen, Imants Tillers, Megan Walch, Vicki West, Ian Westacott, Belinda Winkler, Philip Wolfhagen, Helen Wright