Meg Walch
Artwork title: The Shape of Space: Crab Burrow Morphology
Medium: Oil on archival wooden panel
Size: 100 cm x 130 cm
$9,700
Price: $9,700
About the Artwork
These forms are painted directly from plaster moulds of abandoned crab burrows in the salt marshes of Tasmania. These eccentric organic shapes are of subterranean spaces in the landscape, representing quiet networks beneath the surface, like mycelium, that alter conditions above ground - a calligraphy of the unseen. Burrows increase surface area and marine carbon sequestration: blue carbon. Nature provides models of lateral mutually supportive ecosystems in contrast to vertical hierarchies that are prone to collapse. These forms resemble fungi, bones, the Starship Enterprise; a skeleton upon which other kinds of forms and forms of otherness might be given flesh.
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About the Artist
Meg Walch is an established Tasmanian artist whose practice has evolved through cross-cultural experience and different perspectives on landscape. She engages with the plasticity of painterly mediums to operate between abstraction and figuration. Her studio is in a large renovated boat building shed in New Town.