10/06/2026
Celebrating 10 Years! 🎉
Throwback | Eileen Lubiana
Artist in Residence, Oct-Dec 2016
FRAGILE
During this residency Eileen Lubiana has explored what we as a society ‘value’. A trip to Italy highlighted the extent and value of that region’s cultural heritage, a place filled with centuries of artistic endeavour. In Australia, for many people and especially the First Nation people, it is the very land that we stand on that is of significant value. This juxtaposition is explored in numerous ways throughout the exhibition. Eileen elevates the natural world of dried seaweed and remnant grasses into evocative objects. Playing with notions of water and light, a construct of green glass mirrors the ebb and flow of a living seabed under the waves, whole and resplendent compared to the tumbled pieces so often found in the sand. Water and sand are poetically represented as Eileen’s moving images ebb with the tidal flow of beach and water. The exhibition culminates with a large scale diptych ‘fragile’, hosting a European statue, a guardian, positioned on the sand hills close to the mouth of the Onkaparinga River, standing within the Tjirbruke Story, his sand tracks painted in ochre. The values held within old traditions are blended. Eileen’s work seeks to focus attention on the beauty and fragility of our natural environment in the face of climate change and the loss of open space and by highlighting this fragility, inspires people to contribute in caring for it.
Image: SH
