Jo Bertini, Etching for Oneself a Memory, oil & iridescent pigment on Belgian linen, 132 x 132 cm.

Critically acclaimed and multi-award winning artist Jo Bertini returns to Sydney from her home in New Mexico for Elsewhere, an exhibition celebrating her long engagement and relationship with the desert. Bertini dedicates this work to her late mother Anne Ferguson, whose sculptural work has long been part of the Australian art history canon. Bertini offers an intimate, feminine perspective on the archived historical context of these environments, drawing on the tradition of artists embedded on scientific and ecological survey expeditions in remote and inaccessible regions.