How do you bookend and frame time? Faced with pulling together a survey of 30 years of making, Lismore-based, Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens says the most straightforward path is by ‘embracing the shadows’.
‘I know many shadows. It is through my knowledge of these shadows that I have gained freedom, finding the courage to walk with – and through – them,’ Dickens says.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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