Opening Event - Fleurieu Arthouse - Tarnanthi Festival 2021 - Tony Wilson & Sasha Hill

OPENING EVENT

Tarnanthi Festival 2021 Exhibitions at the Fleurieu Arthouse

ARTISTS:
TONY WILSON: The Space Between Us: Finding the Way Back Home to the Present 

SASHA HILL: My Country My Identity

Sasha Hills body of work is a direct expression and transmission of the cultural potency of Country. Thousands of years of history is embedded in the works, articulating the intergenerational nature of her cultural identity. The work, placed in a Western exhibition space, allows the audience entry into a tiny slice of Sasha’s inherited spiritual and ecological worldviews, centred in and emanating from Country, passed down to her by the matriarchs in her family. Sasha’s cultural role as artist and matriarch, seen through the action of placing paint on canvas to retell ancient stories, activates her responsibilities to pass on her inherited systems of living and being.  

Tony Wilson’s current body of work builds on his ongoing exploration of ‘spaces between’.  Travel is an integral part of Tony’s creative practice, and has recently physically retraced his Italian lineage, through an artist residency in Italy.  This new body of work is an expression of his internal and creative explorations of home, undertaken during this and other travels. Each piece charts his crossings over spaces: across countries, across time, over waters and between cultures, a mapping of self, spirit, culture and home, of the spaces that divide and connect us all to each other and to ourselves.