This is an original work by Lucy Hersey, from her ‘Shadeseeker’ series of works.
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This artwork is in Noosaville, Queensland.
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Lucy Hersey creates paintings that are as much of the land as they are about the landscape. Using locally collected earth, rocks and clays, she handmakes her own naturally pigmented ‘earth paint’, drawing inspiration from location and materials to create works with significant commitment to process and connection to place.
Hersey has been shortlisted for the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize and OmniaPrize, and her work and practice has been featured in Channel 9 production ‘Good Chef Hunting’, Country Style Magazine and The Design Files. As a self-taught painter, Hersey draws on her background in medical research to bring an experimental, yet methodical approach to paint-making. She grinds and hand mills powdered pigments, whilst closely considering the cultural and historical significance of both her materials and colour. Now living as a cattle farmer in regional Victoria, her low-impact art practice is integral to a life that relies on the natural cycles that sustain a life on the land, and honours the landscape she loves and knows intimately, both as a custodian and as an artist.
“I’m big on sustainability - trying to be low impact in my art practice and life. I am as interested in the process of paint makings I am in love with the act of painting. How paint was made throughout history, the significance of colour and pigments in different cultures, and sourcing and using natural pigments to make my own paint. My background in research often leads me down wonderful problem solving, experimental rabbit holes; and at times my studio looks more like a science lab than a painter’s workshop. Being able to pick up the landscape, and physically work it into my paintings is the essential, connecting element of my practice. Ultimately for me, it is the intrinsic properties of the materials that determine the outcome of each painting, as the quirks of each natural pigment are revealed, guiding and leading me in a way that is collaboration, and a celebration of nature and the landscape.“
Artist Statement: ‘Shadeseeker’
“As most of Southern Australia currently grapples with drought, we on our farm are no different - experiencing the first hand pressures of living on the land. Instead of looking outto the cloudless horizon and uncharacteristically brown hills of our local landscape, I have found myself seeking out enclosed places of solitude, pushing deeper in to the bush, wandering the gullies and looking more closely at the activities happening closer to the ground; turning over leaves and logs, digging and investigating the soil. In this way I notice my behaviour innately mimics that of the birds, insects and the larger animals who have relocated from the pasture in search of water and reprieve in this difficult season. These paintings invite the viewer to join me on a ramble, to take shelter and nestle into the landscape - allow it to hold and nurture you, sink your fingers into the cool earth and imagine you are a critter for a while too. “ - Lucy Hersey