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 “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 choseContinue reading “Silueto”