The Visitors is an artistic survey of the people, paths and stories woven through the sociological landscape of contemporary central Australian culture. The art making process engaged diverse sectors of the community in unique inimitable immersive art experiences. Each image is a distillation of poignant local imagery, harnessed to provide an artistic account of the impacts and influences on desert life, captured with all the gloss of a tourism advert.
‘There is a particular pressure to living in central Australia when you add extreme weather, remoteness, and culture clash against a backdrop of, ancient and powerful landscapes. There is a push and pull element to “Alice” – not belonging (a visitor) yet emotionally and psychologically the landscape seems to take you into its vortex of timelessness’
The Visitors series is a distillation of poignant local imagery, harnessed to provide an artistic account of the impacts and influences on desert life, captured with all the gloss of a tourism advert.
The series is comprised of the following projects: