Bundanon

Julia Davis and Lisa Jones are mid career artists who maintain independent practices and also collaborate on projects. Since 2009 their collaborative practice has reflected on transience and embodiment of place.

With a shared interest in the relationship between people and the places they inhabit, their most recent project, Thresholds, explores hidden subterranean landscapes, iterated through video and drawing.

Their work investigates intangible aspects of place and invites the viewer to reflect upon the fleetingness of our lives, where marks of human endeavour are cast upon a backdrop of geological time. Their investigations into place considers this past with awareness of contemporary viewpoints and practices that acknowledge colonial history.

Recent residencies explored the underlands of Paris and Sydney. These projects focused on the vanished, destroyed or non-apparent phenomena of these sites.

In Residence at Bundanon

We propose an ambitious, new experimental body of work that examines and responds to the complexities of our association to lightness/darkness and the unknown qualities of the Australian bush.

As an extension of our previous research into the darkness of the underlands of Paris, Berlin, Melbourne and Sydney we aim to explore how the darkness of the Australian bush landscape can amplify a deeper sense of connection to place.