ROSALIND ATKINS

     
Rosalind Atkins
Monash University
rosalind.atkins@monash.edu
http://www.australiangalleries.com.au/artists/9-artists/74-rosalindatkins


Biography

My practice is predominately in Printmaking. During my career I have collaborated with visual artists, writers, poets and book artists. I currently teach at Monash University. I have exhibited nationally and internationally and have work in major public collections in Australia and overseas.  

Illustrated Talk

DRIFT
Pollen is “as much about disconnecting (death) as it is about the enlivening rush of connecting, how both are integral to our coupling” 

Emptied out in an explosion, an expansion a shimmer of connecting,
cast into the dark field of sky, wild space, invisible  circulations of pollen make ancient flowing journeys in the air, travel on the anemos wind of seasons, through atmospherics, propelled forward in the slipstream to join the  many particular things that fall: snow, dust, sand, carbon, in new frontiers, where its message, resembling an act of faith, is delivered and read.

Drift is collaborative project by Australian artists Rosalind Atkins and Susan Purdy, who break new ground when they cohere their visual affinities, taking plants as their central motif, and paper as their common medium and marrying the etching with the photogram. 

Within a geology of dynamic activating layers; a fusion capable of reconfiguring meaning occurs. With the mind, the eye and our fingertips we push at the edges of what we know, beyond the drift of our ecological anxieties, scouting evolution and our dreams for images to express our biophilia: an emotional affinity towards other life-forms and our tender feeling for the continual metamorphosis of all things on earth.

The artists are friends and colleagues at the Gippsland campus of Monash University.