2024 Heysen Prize for Landscape

Hahndorf Academy

23 Nov - 26 Jan 2025

Karrawirra Riverlines, 2022, traces the palimpsest of marks and pathways that define Kaurna Country’s main watercourse, Karrawirra Parri (red gum forest river). Named after the resilient karra gum trees, the river landscape contains a network of plant, urban, and animal lines that interweave with local walking tracks.

By using inks made from locally foraged fallen bark of these trees, along with the surrounding sheoak and wattle flowers, I aim to evoke the river’s enduring essence and its cyclical nature. These materials combined with the variations of the screenprint monotype, help me convey the rhythm of the riverbanks and the ongoing relationship between the land and its inhabitants, reflecting the constant interplay of departure, return and the persistent lines of connection that define this unique alluvial landscape.