Alana Hampton and Marian Drew invite you to visit Lorikeet Island - a 9 video projection and sound installation opening at the Gold Coast Art Gallery on Saturday 31 March as part of the Queensland Festival of Photography: http://www.festivalofphotography.com.au/venues/gold-coast-city-gallerywebsite: http://www.hamptondrew.com/
Artist Judy Watson will provide opening remarks about the show at 6 pm
The catalogue, with educational DVD, documentary footage, 22 page Education Kit with cross-disciplinary activities for Junior, Middle and Senior School students, and high definition video excerpts is available from the Gold Coast Art Gallery by contacting : Gallery Manager - John Walsh Phone: (07) 5581 6521 Fax: (07) 5581 6594 http://www.theartscentregc.com.au/more/contact-us/
You can visit the installation website at www.hamptondrew.com for a sample of the Ed Kit, preview of the video and sound installation, essays by Alison Kubler (Arts Writer), Michael Aird (Traditional Owner and Anthropologist), Sally Kirkpatrick (Griffith University School of Coastal Management), and the artists and catalogue foreword by Virginia Rigney (curator),
"Lorikeet Island is both real and elusive. It is a documentary tale that lies between lunar tides and human habitation. ... This island is the wilderness contracted in a growing manmade coastline. ... Here senses widen, a tingling, atavistic awareness that grows from the inside expands outward through the skin of the body. ...There is a deep sense of home here." Marian Drew + Alana Hampton
