O Horizon - Curator and Artist floor talk
Event description
Curator + Artist Floor Talk
Saturday 11 June
11AM
Long Gallery
Salamanca Arts Centre
The panel will consist of artists Kate Tucker, Eloise Kirk, Grant Nimmo and curator, Daine Singer
The exhibition draws inspiration from the O horizon, the top layer in a vertical profile of soil. This is the top strata of earth, the biodiverse site of microorganisms and fungi, decomposing organic matter from plants and animals, leaf litter, mosses and lichens.
The O horizon has metaphoric connotations of regeneration, and the naming of this underfoot layer as a 'horizon' is richly evocative. Rather than being in the distance, a horizon can be immediately beneath your feet.
The exhibition refocuses our attention to the earth, the O horizon and nutrient-rich topsoils that are vital to life and our environment.
O horizon is curated by Daine Singer
Above image:
GRANT NIMMO
The hard world, 2022
oil on canvas
158 x 132 cm
161 x 135.5 cm framed