The Imaginary Sight of the Fancied Town of Bathurst (Study)

2025. Artist’s Preliminary Study for inclusion in West of Central 2

Bathurst Regional Gallery, Bathurst NSW

Audiences will be greeted by a large scale, drawn-up composite image of selected Bathurst heritage buildings combined with futuristic ones that reflect the ongoing and projected demographic changes taking place in our region. Two IKEA doors, the outside covered with the urban imagery of a future Bathurst and the inside with a scenic image of the Central West countryside will be aligned with and mounted on top of imagined future streetscape image. The IKEA doors open to reveal a panoramic image of a beautiful but damaged tract of Wiradyuri Country. This upper layer, torn prior to installation aligned with that underneath visually evokes our acknowledgement of the continuity of Wiradyuri custodianship despite the disruption and violence of colonisation.