Field of Plenty

Field of plenty is a large-scale printmaking installation created between 2005 and 2006 by Tasmanian artist Damon Bird. The work explores the way in which people are interconnected with the land in which they dwell through natural, cultural and personal histories. Based upon the artists experience of living and being in and around the Lowland areas of the Great Western Tiers in Tasmania’s North-West, the piece encloses the viewer in a multilateral, trans-temporal environment.
Printed from 26 separate collagraph plates in a monoprint/intaglio method, Field of plenty is ‘panoramaesque’, with the composite of prints forming a loop image. The work contains imagery from both the past and present and exists as a reconfiguration of the ‘landscape’ as both an anthropomorphic and grotesque entity; where self and place can be as one.
Damon Bird is a Tasmanian artist practicing mainly in printmaking and painting. Having started life at Caveside (a small region at the foothills of the Great Western Tiers known for it’s limestone caves and sinkholes), Bird migrated south to Hobart in 2000 to study at the Tasmanian School of Art, gaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2004 and a Master of Art, Design and Environment in 2006. His practice explores the relationship between self and place, nature/culture, contemporary experience and understanding of landscape, wilderness and the ‘Tasmanian gothic’, while engaging with history, time, identity, interconnectivity, ambiguity and geological time through an idiosyncratic understanding of environment as anthropomorphic and grotesque.
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