Annika Romeyn

Above and Below

Name: Above and Below
Brand: Flinders Lane Gallery
Price: 3450.00 AUD
Availability: OutOfStock

$3,450.00

2024 – Original

pencil and watercolour monotype on paper.

76cm x 56cm framed size 91 x 71cm

' Above and Below (Old Mutawintji Gorge) ' I hope my work conveys something of the experience of walking into the Gorge. Passing between weathered walls of rock rising up beside the dry creek-bed, I saw sky and earth converge and reflect in vital pools of water. As I moved inwards, towards a larger waterhole, I also approached an internal space and state of stillness, reflection and contemplation.

Beside the campfire I read James Fox’s ‘The World According to Colour’, which influenced my thinking in its consideration of red through themes including blood, life, humanity and its use in rock art across the world. Later, from the distance of my Canberra studio on Ngunnawal Country, I leant into the intuitive, emotive and symbolic dimensions of colour. A memory of dusty pink creek sand became a diluted wash across the sky, while the same pigments in higher concentration produced primal reddish browns that reminded me of the interaction of iron and oxygen both in the earth and in our bodies.

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Combining printmaking, drawing and watercolour processes, Annika Romeyn creates intricate and immersive works on paper that convey her experiences of being in the landscape and bear witness to the power, fragility and dynamism of nature. Slow journeys on foot, and by kayak and raft, have resulted in an enduring fascination with complex and dramatic rock formations - humbling reminders of elemental forces and geological time.

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