Born to be Wild:Silver Hill
Premiered in the Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art 2004. Curated by Julie Robinson , Art Gallery of South Australia. Single Channel Video Installation. In which a forest falls down of its own volition – collapsing in on itself in an act of unexplainable violence. Catalogue Essay: Anne Finegan There’s an implicit absence of human fate in this mysterious falling down of the trees. Catastrophe doesn’t always strike at midnight, and is all the more spooky for taking place in the clear skies of a noonday glare. The forest is majestic, rising from the cloud bank with an Ansell Adams black-and-white …
