quick iPhone photos
Wrack on my Walk
Studio at The Farm 2024
The Farm, Margaret River
Wadandi Boodja
In 2024 I will be working as a Studio Artist on The Farm. My focus during this time is to continue and expand on my seaweed and sea wrack drawing studies that I began in late 2021. Much gratitude to The Farm for having me.
*Finalist for the Fremantle Print Award 2023*
*4th August-22nd October 2023*
Seaweed Heart is a hand drawn vector giclee print of sea wrack. It is based on sketches done in Cowaramup Bay, SW WA.
Seaweed is a blue carbon, quietly helping the planet survive human inhabitation. Sea Wrack is the mass of seaweeds and seagrasses that are cast ashore by ocean tides and swells.
There's so much emotion and drama in seaweed and sea wrack- all tossed, entwined and wreathed. And it's these connections between image and language, humanity and Nature , that i'm drawing on in Seaweed Heart.
The soft deep black of Seaweed Heart was only only achievable through the printing process and the addition of purple into the standard CMYK mix. The black is also purposefully fragile, the paper marks easily so the print must be handled with extra care.
A reminder for how we should treat the planet.
Ongoing Project:the Study of Wrack.
From 2022 + I have been involved with a self driven project- the drawing and studying of sea wrack and sea weed in Cowaramup Bay, South West WA.
I draw and photograph the seaweed and sea wrack on a daily basis at a beach called Melaleucas. I follow the seasons, the swell, weather, and the patterns of shore life and swim almost daily. I am now looking into this body of work and developing it.
‘Ooooops’ self portrait as a shell doll with seaweed hair.
‘Deceitful yet orderly, much freckled, ruddy complexion…’
Excerpts of descriptions of female convicts, Hobart, Convict Women’s prison. 1788 +
'Ever Evers: of other loves and landscapes' exhibition featured a life sized paper cut out 3 piece collaged doll with a seahorse. This large scale print measured 5ft6" (artists height) plus the plinth.
