Exhibitions
Celia Gullett
Tim Olsen Gallery
10 - 28 November 2010
Celia Gullett
Breathing Land
Tim Olsen Gallery
10 - 28 November 2010
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“In Australia alone, is to be found
the Grotesque, the Weird, the strange scribblings of nature learning how to
write. Some see no beauty in our trees without shade, our flowers without
perfume, our birds who cannot fly, and our beasts who have not yet learned to
walk on all fours. But the dweller in the wilderness acknowledges the subtle
charm of this fantastic land of monstrosities. He becomes familiar with the
beauty of the loneliness. Whispered to by the myriad of tongues of the
wilderness, he learns the language of the barren and the uncouth, and can read
the hieroglyphs of haggard gum trees blown into odd shapes, distorted with
fierce hot winds, or cramped with cold nights, when the Southern Cross freezes
in a cloudless sky of icy blue. The phantasmagoria of that wild dreamland
called the Bush interprets itself.”
Marcus Clarke 1869