fowlersgap – Matti Doing Art

Fowlers Gap: Cyanotypes

I use cyanotypes to document my passage through the arid Australian outback landscape at Fowlers Gap.

Fowlers Gap: Photography

A journal entry about my photography practice and some of the hundreds of shots I made on my trip to the Australian outback.

Fowlers Gap: Ceramics

Playing with clay at Fowlers Gap… it’s like being at summer camp!

“Long drawing” is an interference technique I developed in Drawing 3 to stop myself from being precious with my mark-making. I tend to agonise over the way that what goes into my eyes doesn’t come out of my hand. UPDATE: I have since learned that the foundation of this technique is known as “blind contourContinue reading “Fowlers Gap: Long Drawings”

Silueto – The Fowlers Gap Interventions

My initial proposal for our visit to Fowlers Gap was to explore my bodily relationship with the land by revisiting an ongoing series of body/land/performance artworks. My first Silueto was a straightforward scratch in the dirt of the driveway just after breakfast. Morning cross-light put the mark into relief. I chose the driveway because itContinue reading “Silueto – The Fowlers Gap Interventions”