I have arrived, back in the big red chair for the second part of my Residency in 3 Acts at The Artist’s Cottage Salamanca Arts Centre.
After 6 months in the tropics, I am definitely feeling the cold, all rugged up and ready for the continuing conversation with my mountain companion: Kunanyi (Mount Wellington)
The ‘Kunanyi’ series in progress are cartographic hymns composed of maps hidden within the paintings - a chorus of the Artist’s Cottage, Kelly’s Steps, my mountain’s conversation and the clandestine path to tragic poetic chaos and inevitability
Driving into Nipaluna Hobart yesterday, Kunanyi was beginning to take cover under cloud and mist, on my arrival at the cottage she was fully shrouded. Message heard loud and clear. There is a painting waiting in this first mountain conversation
Act I (Dec‘21)- Just as Lutruwita-Tasmania opened borders, despite testing negative, health guidelines mandated that my residency at The Artist’s Cottage at Salamanca Arts Centre was in precious solitude. See ‘Kunanyi’ for more detail on this extraordinary surreal experience
Act II - I prefer to walk into residency without a firm plan. 10kg of paint and supplies have arrived however, 5 canvases are lost in transit. Loosely, I hope to paint a series of small works based on my mountain’s conversation. This Act will hopefully be a reconnaissance mission, with visits to the mountain and a tip-toe through the local art scene, all things I wasn’t able to do during Act I
In the next post I will share the story of my pre-residency whirlwind trip around Lutruwita Tasmania and check my Instagram for snippets of what is made and… maybe some whispers from the mountain
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Kunyani is Muwinina country, and I acknowledge the Palawa people of Lutruwita as the traditional owners of this land I am so privileged to wander on and work on as an artist and a maker
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Lada Dedić - Artist in Residence at The Artist’s Cottage, Salamanca Arts Centre