Artwork: The Fallen, 2022, Indian ink on museum mount board, 152 x 306 cm
Congratulations to Kim Westcott whose work 'The Fallen' is a finalist in the National Works on paper (NWOP) prize 2022, held at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery 13 August - 27 August 2022.
The Fallen’ is inspired from a fallen tree in the Warby Ovens National Park in Victoria. One day, I stumbled through thick bush in the ‘Warby’s’, in search of something. As nature speaks to me, I was feeling its pain. I saw the trees…the beautiful Eucalypts that stretch to the sky and sometimes touch each other’s limbs. I noticed how the trees fracture the earth to connect to all that wants to communicate. These trees, in a forest, spread to the limits that are imposed upon them. But these days, the limits are pressurising them. They are stressed, and they are falling. This day, I stumbled across a magnificent gum tree. Lying horizontal, it was uprooted; it had let go, or been defeated. Yet to me it was also rising, it had formed an image of another connection. A connection you cannot see, but one that you feel.
- Kim Westcott, 2022
The Fallen’ is inspired from a fallen tree in the Warby Ovens National Park in Victoria. One day, I stumbled through thick bush in the ‘Warby’s’, in search of something. As nature speaks to me, I was feeling its pain. I saw the trees…the beautiful Eucalypts that stretch to the sky and sometimes touch each other’s limbs. I noticed how the trees fracture the earth to connect to all that wants to communicate. These trees, in a forest, spread to the limits that are imposed upon them. But these days, the limits are pressurising them. They are stressed, and they are falling. This day, I stumbled across a magnificent gum tree. Lying horizontal, it was uprooted; it had let go, or been defeated. Yet to me it was also rising, it had formed an image of another connection. A connection you cannot see, but one that you feel.
- Kim Westcott, 2022
May 3, 2022
