The Landscape Unions include the Desert, Mountain, and River Unions. Desert Union was exhibited at The Guesthouse, Cork, 2011 as part of 'Worlds End'. A multimedia installation using photography, video, text, lights, and smoke. The Landscape Unions explored the positioning of power in respect to nature and how this is influenced by historical colonial perspectives reflected in painting. Here, the land acquires agency and asserts its autonomy, attempting to fight back by forming unions.


Rights for Nature? Here, nature attempts to fight back and acquire agency by forming unions. This line of thinking came about during a residency at The Broken Hill Art Exchange, NSW, Australia, 2011, the work of Austrian/Australian 19th-century artist Eugen von Guérard, and my experience of politics and running as a candidate for the Green Party in 2007.


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Desert Union / cut-out sheet / build your own desert
2012
Cut-out photographs, pen on paper
32 x 44 cm

An interactive campaign artefact to raise awareness of the issues important to the Desert Union; build your own desert landscape

The Landscape Unions / Desert Union
2013
Photograph & text printed on archival paper
21 x 21 cm

A Landscape Union medallion created for the Desert Union, showing images of the desert around Broken Hill, Australia, including the Living Desert Park

The Landscape Unions / Desert Union
2013
Photograph & text printed on archival paper
21 x 21 cm

A Landscape Union medallion created for the Desert Union, showing images of the desert around Broken Hill, Australia, including the Living Desert Park

Desert Union / cut-out habitat sign / build your own desert
2012
Cut-out photograph, pen on paper
30 x 21 cm

An interactive campaign artefact to raise awareness of the issues important to the Desert Union; build your own desert landscape

Desert Union / cut-out water tank / build your own desert
2012
Cut-out photograph, pen on paper
30 x 21 cm

An interactive campaign artefact to raise awareness of the issues important to the Desert Union; build your own desert landscape

Desert Union / cut-out desert mound / build your own desert
2012
Cut-out photograph, pen on paper
21 x 30 cm

An interactive campaign artefact to raise awareness of the issues important to the Desert Union; build your own desert landscape.

Desert Union / greeting cards
2012
Photographs, images, text, card, envelopes, cellophane bags
Cards 15 x 21 cm (ea)

Desert Union advertising and fundraising campaign artefacts with greeting cards, individual and in box-sets, showing photographs, drawings, cut-outs and medallions

Desert Union / greeting cards / detail
2012
Photographs, images, text, card, envelopes, cellophane bags
Cards 15 x 21 cm (ea)

Desert Union advertising and fundraising campaign artefacts with greeting cards, individual and in box-sets, showing photographs, drawings, cut-outs and medallions

Desert Union / greeting cards
2012
Photographs, images, text, card, envelopes, cellophane bags
Cards 15 x 21 cm (ea)

Desert Union advertising and fundraising campaign artefacts with greeting cards, individual and in box-sets, showing photographs, drawings, cut-outs and medallions

Desert Union / greeting cards box-set
2012
Photographs, images, text, card, envelopes, cellophane bags
Cards 15 x 21 cm (ea) set of ten

Desert Union advertising and fundraising campaign artefacts with greeting cards, individual and in box-sets, showing photographs, drawings, cut-outs and medallions

Desert Union / greeting cards box-set
2012
Photographs, images, text, card, envelopes, cellophane bags
Cards 15 x 21 cm (ea) set of ten

Desert Union advertising and fundraising campaign artefacts with greeting cards, individual and in box-sets, showing photographs, drawings, cut-outs and medallions

Desert Union / greeting card
2012
Printed image, card, envelope, cellophane bag
Card 15 x 21 cm

Desert Union advertising and fundraising campaign artefacts with greeting cards, individual and in box-sets, showing photographs, drawings, cut-outs and medallions

Desert Union / badges
2012
Photographs, image, text, badges, plastic bags
Badges 2.5 cm (ea)

Using the existing strategies of unions, badges, the desert itself and the points of contact with humans have become the subject matter

Desert Union / badges
2012
Image, text, badges, plastic bags
Badges 2.5 cm (ea)

Using the existing strategies of unions, badges; a logo has been created from a drawing of one of the desert bushes

Desert Union / badges
2012
Photographs, text, badges, plastic bags
Badges 2.5 cm (ea)

Using the existing strategies of unions, badges, the desert itself and the points of contact with humans have become the subject matter

Desert Union / badge sheet
2012
Photograph & text printed on archival paper
21 x 30 cm

Sample badge sheet created for Desert Union, showing a repeat photograph of a bench from the Living Desert Park, near Broken Hill, Australia

Desert Union / badge sheet
2012
Photographs & text printed on archival paper
21 x 30 cm

Sample badge sheet created for Desert Union, showing photographs of the desert around Broken Hill, Australia, including the Living Desert Park near Broken Hill, Australia

Desert Union / medalion
2013
Photograph and text printed on archival paper
21 x 21 cm

A set of medallions created for the Desert Union, showing images of the desert around Broken Hill, Australia, including the Living Desert Park

Desert Union / medalion
2013
Photograph and text printed on archival paper
21 x 21 cm

A set of medallions created for the Desert Union, showing images of the desert around Broken Hill, Australia, including the Living Desert Park

Desert Union / medalion
2013
Photograph and text printed on archival paper
21 x 21 cm

A set of medallions created for the Desert Union, showing images of the desert around Broken Hill, Australia, including the Living Desert Park

Desert Union / medalion
2013
Photograph and text printed on archival paper
21 x 21 cm

A set of medallions created for the Desert Union, showing images of the desert around Broken Hill, Australia, including the Living Desert Park

Desert Union / postcard
2012
Photograph and text printed as a postcard
14 x 9 cm

Part of a set of postcards printed as a fundraising and advertising campaign for the Desert Union. Send greetings from the Desert! A latitude marker in the Desert Sculpture Park

Desert Union / postcard
2012
Photograph and text printed as a postcard
14 x 9 cm

Part of a set of postcards printed as a fundraising and advertising campaign for the Desert Union. Send greetings from the Desert! A path in the Living Desert Park

Desert Union / postcard
2012
Photograph and text printed as a postcard
14 x 9 cm

Part of a set of postcards printed as a fundraising and advertising campaign for the Desert Union. Send greetings from the Desert! A desert bush in the Living Desert Park

Desert Union / postcard
2012
Photograph and text printed as a postcard
14 x 9 cm

Part of a set of postcards printed as a fundraising and advertising campaign for the Desert Union. Send greetings from the Desert! A road going through a dried creek

Desert Union / Habitat Sign
2011
Photograph
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Photograph of an information sign in the Living Desert Park

Desert Union / Water Tank
2011
Photograph
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Photograph of water tanks in the Living Desert Park

Desert Union / Desert Mound
2011
Photograph
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Photograph of a mound in the Living Desert Park

Desert Union at 'Worlds End' / detail
2011
Photographs printed on hahnemuhle photographic paper and lead lights
59 x 92 cm (ea)

Photographic installation exhibited at 'Worlds End' residency, the Guesthouse and 'ArtTrail' Cork 2011. Photographs show two identical bus shelters, one in the town of Broken Hill and one in the desert, NSW, Australia

Desert Union at 'Worlds End' / detail
2011
Photograph printed on hahnemuhle photographic paper
59 x 92 cm

A bus shelter in the desert exhibited at 'Worlds End' residency, the Guesthouse, and 'ArtTrail' Cork 2011

Desert Union at 'Worlds End' / detail
2011
Photograph printed on hahnemuhle photographic paper
59 x 92 cm

A bus shelter in Broken Hill town exhibited as part of 'Worlds End' residency, the Guesthouse, and 'ArtTrail' Cork 2011

Desert Union / Desert Marker
2011
Photograph
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Photograph of a latitude marker in the Desert Sculpture Park

Desert Union at 'Worlds End' / detail
2011
Photographs printed on hahnemuhle photographic paper, light boxes
25 x 34 cm (ea)

Light box photographic installation exhibited at 'Worlds End' residency, the Guesthouse, Cork, 2011

Desert Union at 'Worlds End' / detail
2011
Photograph printed on hahnemuhle photographic paper, light boxe
25 x 34 cm

Detail of the light box photographic installation exhibited at 'Worlds End' residency, the Guesthouse, Cork, 2011

Desert Union at 'Worlds End' / detail
2011
Photograph of a painting on hahnemuhle photographic paper
21 x 30 cm

Photograph used as part of the light box installation exhibited at 'Worlds End' residency, the Guesthouse, Cork, 2011, showing 'The Weatherboard Falls, Blue Mountains, Australia' by Eugen von Guérard c.1890

Desert Union at 'Worlds End' / detail
2011
Photograph printed on hahnemuhle photographic paper
21 x 30 cm

Photograph used as part of the light box installation exhibited at 'Worlds End' residency, the Guesthouse, Cork, 2011, showing a habitat from the Agricultural Museum in Budapest, Hungary

Desert Union at 'Worlds End' / poster
2011
Printed poster
60 x 41 cm
Desert Union at 'Worlds End' / installation view
2011
Multi-media installation
Variable

The table (pod) installation, which housed video projections, transparency projections, and TV monitors, exhibited at 'Worlds End' residency, the Guesthouse, Cork, 2011

Desert Union at 'Worlds End' / installation view
2011
Multi-media installation
Variable

The table (pod) installation, which housed video projections, transparency projections, and TV monitors, exhibited at 'Worlds End' residency, the Guesthouse, Cork, 2011

Desert Union at 'Worlds End' / detail
2011
Multi-media installation
Variable

The table (pod) installation, which housed video projections, transparency projections, and TV monitors, exhibited at 'Worlds End' residency, the Guesthouse, Cork, 2011

Desert Union at 'Worlds End' / installation view
2011
Multi-media installation
Variable

The table (pod) installation, which housed video projections, transparency projections, and TV monitors, exhibited at 'Worlds End' residency, the Guesthouse, Cork, 2011

Desert Union at 'Worlds End' / detail
2011
Multi-media installation
Variable

The table (pod) installation, which housed video projections, transparency projections, and TV monitors, exhibited at 'Worlds End' residency, the Guesthouse, Cork, 2011

Desert Union at 'Worlds End' / detail
2011
Multi-media installation
Variable

The table (pod) installation, which housed video projections, transparency projections, and TV monitors, exhibited at 'Worlds End' residency, the Guesthouse, Cork, 2011

Desert Union at 'Worlds End' / detail
2011
Multi-media installation
Variable

The table (pod) installation, which housed video projections, transparency projections, and TV monitors, exhibited at 'Worlds End' residency, the Guesthouse, Cork, 2011