Jan Davis
walking home – recent works on paper
‘… if memory is imagined as a real space – a place, theatre, library – then the act of remembering is imagined as a real act, that is, as a physical act: as walking.’
Solnit, Rebecca 2001, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Verso, London. p. 77.
Walking Home is my metaphorical return journey to Gippsland, the place of my childhood.
The images are drawn from the intersection of two narratives of Gippsland: the myth of Lohan Tuka, the white woman reputedly held captive by the Kurnai tribes in the 1840s and the story of my settler family’s arrival at the same time.
The prints operate as imaginary maps for my journey, maps which record the places where particular events from the narratives occurred or could have occurred. The places named in the titles suggest resting points on my way.
The works evoke the tracks and traces of people walking across places, through time.
Jan Davis
September 2010
gallery opening times: 11 am – 5 pm Wed – Sat during exhibition – other times by appointment.
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(1) Leaping Bluff, Metung (2009)
ink drawing, stitching on Japanese mulberry paper
Sheet: 59.0 x 116.0 cm Image: 49.0 x 95.0 cm
$1950.00
(2) In search of Lohan Tuka from the mountains to the lakes (2010)
digital print in edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
Sheet: 70.5 x 56.0 cm Image: 45.5 x 56.0 cm
$950.00
(3) First sighting, near Flooding Creek (2010)
digital print in edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
Sheet 83.0 x 100.0 cm Image 63.0 x 80.0 cm
$950.00
(4) Fragments of a map, Omeo (2010)
digital print in edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
Sheet: 76.5 x 100.0 cm Image: 63.0 x 80.0 cm
$950.00
(5) Crossing Lake King (2010)
digital print in edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
Sheet: 78.0 x 100.0 cm Image: 63.0 x 80.0 cm
$950.00
(6) McMillan’s run, Tabberabbera (2010)
digital print in edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
Image: 78.0 x 100.0 cm Image: 63.0 x 80.0 cm
$950.00
(7) Herd resting, Dargo Plains (2010)
digital print in edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
Sheet: 51.0 x 100.0 Image: 30.0 x 80.0 cm
$575.00
(8) McMillan’s road, Iguana Creek (2010)
digital print in edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
Sheet: 80.0 x 100.0 cm Image: 61.0 x 80.0 cm
$950.00
(9) Alpine garden, Cobungra (2010)
digital print in edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
Sheet: 63.0 x 81.0 cm Image: 41.0 x 61.0 cm
$725.00
(10) Site, Snowy River (2010)
digital print in edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
Sheet: 74.0 x 89.0 cm Image: 52.0 x 69.0 cm
$725.00
(11) Clearing, Tambo Crossing (2010)
digital print in edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
Sheet: 64.0 x 84.0 cm Image: 42.0 x 66.0 cm
$725.00
(12) The white woman (2010)
digital print in edition of 10 on Awagami Unryu paper
Sheet: 43.0 x 52.0 cm Image: 21.0 x 32.0 cm
$500.00
(13) Swifts Creek (2010)
digital print in edition of 10 on Awagami Unryu paper
Sheet: 43.0 x 52.0 cm Image: 21.0 x 32.0 cm
$500.00
(14) Lohan Tuka comes ashore (2010)
digital print in edition of 10 on Awagami Unryu paper
Sheet: 36.0 x 32.0 cm Image: 21.0 x 18.0 cm
$450.00
Digital prints printed by Michael Shapter
Michael’s Big Picture, Lismore