Jan Davis – exhibition – walking home
Walking Home
recent works on paper 2009/2010
9 October – 13 November 2010
‘… 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.’ Rebecca Solnit
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 1860s 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.
Please note prices are from 2010 exhibition – increases may apply.
Leaping Bluff, Metung (2009)
ink drawing ink drawing
stitching on Japanese mulberry paper
59.0 x 116.0 m Price: $1,950
In search of Lohan Tuka from the mountains to the lakes (2010)
edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
70.5 x 56.0 cm Price: $950
First sighting, near Flooding Creek (2010)
edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
70.5 x 56.0 cm $950
Fragments of a map, Omeo (2010)
edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
76.5 x 100.0 cm $950
Crossing Lake King (2010)
edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
78.0 x 100.0 cm $950
McMillan’s run, Tabberabbera (2010)
edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
78.0 x 100.0 Image $950
Herd resting, Dargo Plains (2010)
in edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
51.0 x 100.0 $575
McMillan’s road, Iguana Creek (2010)
in edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
80.0 x 100.0 cm $950
Alpine garden, Cobungra (2010)
edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
63.0 x 81.0 cm $725
Site, Snowy River (2010)
edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
74.0 x 89.0 cm $725
Clearing, Tambo Crossing (2010)
edition of 5 on Awagami Unryu paper
64.0 x 84.0 cm $725
The white woman (2010)
edition of 10 on Awagami Unryu paper
43.0 x 52.0 cm $500
Swifts Creek (2010)
edition of 10 on Awagami Unryu paper
43.0 x 52.0 cm $500
Lohan Tuka comes ashore (2010)
edition of 10 on Awagami Unryu paper
36.0 x 32.0 cm $450
Digital prints printed by Michael Shapter Michael’s Big Picture, Lismore