This year TRAILS finalists included artists from across Australia. The works reflected a range of media, techniques and experience, providing viewers with a broad spectrum from which to cast their People's Choice vote. TRAILS included large scale works in the main exhibition and small scale works in a miniatures exhibition.
Living in a fishing port, I have come to appreciate the forms of objects used in the fishing industry with their often weathered surfaces alluding to time at sea and subjection to the elements. The totemic structure itself invites a more formal reading in the context of contemporary art.
Exhibited at Alex Cancian Menswear, 2023
Held on the lands of the Gunditjmara people, we wish to acknowledge them as the Traditional Owners and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.