Original mixed-media assemblage | 2022
78 × 68 cm | Framed
AU$895
Nighttime in the Simpson Desert is a personal visual record of the Australian desert after dark—a landscape transformed by shadow, silence and the immense night sky.
Nine individually painted textile tiles bring together abstract marks and symbols developed from memories of travelling through the Simpson Desert. Tracks, trees, shelters, vegetation, shifting sand and distant points of light are reduced to their essential shapes. Set against a deep black ground, the tiles read like fragments of a map, a collection of field notes or small windows into remembered places.
The frayed edges of the fabric retain a sense of rawness and exposure, while the restrained palette of black, white, earth and mineral blue evokes moonlight moving across the desert’s textured surface.
Alongside the painted tiles, a bundle of found sticks has been wrapped by hand with dark woven wool and beads. This sculptural element brings the physical landscape into the work, contrasting the fragility of fibre with the weathered strength of the timber.
Together, these elements form a quiet meditation on the desert at night—not as a single complete view, but as a series of observations, traces and sensory memories gathered over time.
Original mixed-media assemblage | 2022
78 × 68 cm | Framed
AU$895
Nighttime in the Simpson Desert is a personal visual record of the Australian desert after dark—a landscape transformed by shadow, silence and the immense night sky.
Nine individually painted textile tiles bring together abstract marks and symbols developed from memories of travelling through the Simpson Desert. Tracks, trees, shelters, vegetation, shifting sand and distant points of light are reduced to their essential shapes. Set against a deep black ground, the tiles read like fragments of a map, a collection of field notes or small windows into remembered places.
The frayed edges of the fabric retain a sense of rawness and exposure, while the restrained palette of black, white, earth and mineral blue evokes moonlight moving across the desert’s textured surface.
Alongside the painted tiles, a bundle of found sticks has been wrapped by hand with dark woven wool and beads. This sculptural element brings the physical landscape into the work, contrasting the fragility of fibre with the weathered strength of the timber.
Together, these elements form a quiet meditation on the desert at night—not as a single complete view, but as a series of observations, traces and sensory memories gathered over time.
