‘Postcards from the river’ were drawn en plein air during a two day walk along a riparian corridor on Wiradjuri and Gundungurra lands. Working small scale and fast paced using handmade timber palettes to apply home-made pitch and timber extracts onto board, Williams’ postcard correspondence tells of the river as both a defiant force of nature and a site of industrial energy production.
Using pitch, a visco-elastic polymer made by capturing what usually turns to smoke when preparing charcoal, the drawings speak through medium to the exchange of energy that occurs within the power stations and water reservoirs along the river, as well as the medium potential of timber fibre. Framed using a custom recycled mat board with she-oak fibre inclusions, this work is an unassuming study of the increasingly commodified landscape.
First shown at 'Small fire, my hand' alongside Byron Kinnaird, at Landslide Gallery in Wentworth Falls.
2024, pitch and timber extract on board, framed with recycled mat and timber fibre hinging in an oxidised hardwood frame by Mount Framing
2024, pitch and timber extract on board, framed with recycled mat and timber fibre hinging in an oxidised hardwood frame by
'Small fire, my hand' install view. Landslide Gallery