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Artists engaging with tropical Australia’s distinct and varied landscapes.
Extreme endemic environments holding remnants of human influence and transience, overlooked and abondoned references. It is these traces that inform Bonemap.
Amongst the reef, rainforest and savanna, scattered, disused and abandoned European objects are evident.
Bonemap investigates cultural identity through the idea of the moment.
The historical and environmental moment in time amidst a process of decay.
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 The skeleton in the human adult consists of over 200 distinct bones.
Millions of years ago, a huge southern land mass we call Gondwana.
Wet Season can transform arid wastelands into inland seas.
Fossils from a vanished seabed.
Rich volcanic topography.
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Short Bones are intended for strength and compactness.
1770, Captain James Cook took Possession Island.
The CSR company, which owned the most extensive sugar plantation in the north, had its own fleet of recruitment vessels.
The idea of a young plantation lord living among the "primitives" appealed to Nineteenth Century romantic notions. |
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Long Bones are found in the limbs, where they form a system of levers sustaining and moving the body.
Land, sea , and climate combine, a relentless harsh taskmaster, never completely conquerable. Pathfinder and arable land signalled squattocracy.
The lure of resources plague its environs with transience and foreign substance etching a migratory march.
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A phantom is a persistent image or memory of part of the body, usually a limb, for months or years after its loss.
Dwellings crumble under harsh light.
Behind was left Joss House, garden and an incredible history buried.
Discarded technology lay in shallow graves.
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Flat Bones’ extensive protection or the provision of broad surfaces for muscle attachment.
The Forts offer visitors an insight into the past as well as a spectacular vista of coast.
In 1942 there were three Japanese air raids over Townsville.
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Irregular’ or ‘Mixed Bones’ are peculiar in form and cannot be grouped.
Oceans, rivers, creeks, swamps and billabongs.
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Legend
Bonemap field trip: Port War Signal Station ‘The Forts’ Magnetic Island, Bonemap hosted by Umbrella Studios and Faculty of Arts James Cook University, Townsville. Artists: Lee Wen, Russell Milledge, Rebecca Youdell, Michael Whiticker, Glen O’Malley.
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