Cult of Forgetfulness - Stuart Earnshaw

Cult of Forgetfulness by WA artist Stuart Earnshaw - Finalist in the 2024 Heysen Prize for Landscape.

It is a structural matter, a view from a window which has been carefully placed to exclude a whole quadrant of the landscape – simple forgetting of other possible views – cult of forgetfulness by W. E. H. Stanner. 1974, a Holden HR drives past Cherry Tree Poll Rd on an ideal family summer holiday to Albany, ignorant of what was down that road. Shame. 1987, Friday afternoon driving back to Perth on Mission Road, Aunty Marj hitches a lift to see family, still not comprehending, she is gracious. 2024, returning to Marribank, things fall apart, the land is dry and forgotten, the buildings testify to my ignorance, trying to remember and be grateful to Aunty Marj for the yarns and the kangaroo tail stew.

Materials: Oil, coloured pencil and paper collage on board
Dimensions (cm): 63 H x 104 W 6 D

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