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In Good Company
Karen Fletcher · 1 work in this exhibition
- MediumLinocut and blind embossing on BFK Rives 100% cotton rag
- Image size35 x 35 cm
- Year2026
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About the artwork
The Top End of Australia is a place of extraordinary ecological richness %u2014 layered, teeming, and largely hidden from those who move through it too quickly. My practice as a printmaker is rooted in this environment: its wetlands, its birds, its intricate web of interdependent life. To make a linocut print is to slow down, to notice, to honour what is actually there. In Good Company centres on two brolgas %u2014 lifelong partners %u2014 standing among the lotus and grasses of a Top End wetland. Brolgas mate for life, and there is something quietly profound in their steadfast companionship. The inked layer reveals what the eye immediately sees %u2014 the brolgas, the lotus, the grasses. The embossed layer reveals what is easily missed: dragonflies hovering, a butterfly in the reeds, a St Andrew%u2019s Cross spider, a caterpillar along the base. An entire community, present but unseen. Two blocks, two opposing carving logics, two ways of marking paper. The seen and the unseen together.