Perth
International Arts Festival
Feb/March 2003
Maslen & Mehra were invited by The Holmes à Court Gallery
Perth to exhibit new work during the Perth International Arts
Festival in February 2003, the theme for which was Fire. The work
exhibited for the festival was based on research completed in
2002 during a residency at Artspace in Sydney. Having arrived
in Sydney a few months after the fires of 2001 swept through New
South Wales, they made contact with a fire ecologist who offered
to take them into restricted parts of Heathcote National Park.
" The Australian landscape has been ravaged and renewed countless
times by the effects of bushfires. In this sensitive and informed
installation the artists acknowledge the ecological history of
our environment in their interpretation of the positive outcomes
that can occur in the aftermath of fire"
Belinda Carrigan
Director of The Holmes a Court Collection
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