L’ animale / The animal - Lee Salomone

L’ animale / The animal by SA artist Lee Salomone  - Finalist in the 2024 Heysen Prize for Landscape.

I work between Tarndanya and Naarm, with twelve trips since 2021. I choose to drive slowly, taking days; this leisurely pace creates a transitional zone that allows for a connection to geological time, whilst physically being placed in landscape. This “in-betweenness” provides crucial research for art practice. These trips have uncovered a First Nation Birthing tree, the pictographs of a rock art site, El Nina lakes appear where there were none previously, and have strengthened the realisation that Humans are part of Nature and not separate. Highway one links Tarndanya and Naarm, passing through a variety of landscapes, but one constant feature is the ancient Grass tree that epitomises the Australian bush – they are survivors that have adapted to the fire cycles of this land. L’animale celebrates the Australian landscape – the bronze grass tree spikes re-colonise the European floral motifs on the wooden table base.

Materials: Found wooden table bottom, metal, bronze, various paint
Dimensions (cm): 147 H x 90 W x 90 D

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