1 June 2024. In an article in Garland Magazine, Jacqueline Millner reveals what artist residencies can tell us about the lived culture of drought. The full article can be read at the following link: https://garlandmag.com/article/parched/ (Image: Ponch Hawkes, WIP for Emotional Language of Drought 2023-24)
J L Dow, ‘Goulburn Valley Farming: An Irrigation Contrast,’ Leader, 15 February 1902, 6. Transcript: On the other side of the Goulburn, where the irrigation is, a population of nearly 503 is found on the nearest 2000 acres abutting on Shepparton alone; and as for production, the scene is simply a repetition of Passadena,
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One of Yorta Yorta artist Lin Onus’ best known works is Barmah Forest (1994), an eerily serene scene of Biyala (river red gums) immersed and reflected in water, not unlike the later Floodwater ‘Wooroong Nucko’ (1995) that explicitly represents the Dungala (Murray River) in flood. In Barmah Forest, what might at first appear a realist
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