A line in the postcolonial landscape of this Country can be many things at once. A horizon line, an animal track, the outline of a tree. It can take the form of a physical boundary or border, such as a fence, road, or watercourse. It can delineate one place from another; a line in the sand; this is my paddock and that’s yours. But lines can also be bureaucratic, enforced, arbitrary, imagined, fluid, stolen, reclaimed, historical, cultural, and familial.
In this exhibition Bethany Thornber and Courtney Young present a series of paintings and sculptures that explore the line motif and its many iterations. Thornber is a First Nations artist of the Wiradjuri people, based in nipaluna/Hobart. Young is an artist and agroecological farmer based in Rutherglen, Victoria on Bpangerang Country. These works stem from a dialogue between two artists, drawing on their shared experiences and contrasting identities.