Nathalie Hartog-Gautier – Midas 2

Artist Statement

Over several of my artist-in-residencies at Hill End, I developed this series of works as a direct response to the surrounding landscape. Its stratification, the colours locked deep within the earth and the traces and marks I encountered on the ground surface prompted this exploration.

The picket fences that peppered and framed the empty landscape of Hill End, I saw as standing guard to our past histories – occupation and repossession of land became a constant vision.