Bundanon

Through a combination of field-research and studio based practice, Antonia Aitken broadly investigates social and environmental questions about how we engage with and interpret our relationships to country within a contemporary Australian context. Aitken’s practice uses printmaking and drawing processes, particularly etching, woodblock printing and book making. Having worked on site in Namadgi National park, Lake Mungo National Park and Hill End, Aitken is interested in places of cultural, historical and spiritual importance for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.

Aitken’s residency in 2010 was a chance for the artist to explore Bundanon as a site of cultural and environmental significance and proposes to develop a new series of prints and drawings, engaging with a new site, recording sensory awareness of the place.