Sally Clarke

She Bush

Friday 6 – Saturday 21 November 2016

Sally Clarke, My Pink Bush and the Lost Limb, 2004, acrylic paint on dollhouse floorboards. Image courtesy of the artist.

Sally Clarke, My Pink Bush and the Lost Limb, 2004, acrylic paint on dollhouse floorboards. Photo: David Paterson Photography.

Picking up from where she left off nearly seven years ago, Sally Clarke revisits the theme of the Australian Bush, an idea that is persistently characterised by grand master narratives, where libidinous landscapes – framed in feminine metaphors – submit to male desires and conquests. In this body of work, which takes a range of forms, she commandeers this trope and amplifies it just a little further in order to subvert it. Growing up on a farm on the outskirts of Goulburn and later in the ‘Bush Capital’, it is a theme that remains close to her heart.