a presence of bird

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birds, landstracts and sculpture
by Greer Taylor
14 November - 2 December  2006
De Havilland Gallery

The journey to this exhibition began out of the blue, with the appearance of bird after bird on my drawing paper. They flew onto my paper as self portraits, synonyms, landscape-like, but overall they described a sense of life; free untainted life – a life of “wilderness thinking”.

A desire to understand wilderness as a state of mind has been something I have been considering for some time. Wilderness is not controlled, sanitised, fearful – it is free to be, to grow, to evolve… to become whatever it needs to be.

I regard it as important that we should be able to think as a wilderness – free of fear, preconceptions, limits.

This exhibition is a part of this ongoing exploration – an attempt to describe or simply reach out to the “idea” of wilderness.

After the initial migration of birds to my drawing paper I continued with the exploration of “bird” they seem a synonym for wilderness… their “is-ness”, their seeming joy of just being, their fiery commitment to the life/death cycle, a sense of completeness in their relationship with their environment…

The landstracts (they are not landscapes nor can they really be called abstracts) are part of an ongoing exploration of my emotional relationship with land/wilderness – an attempt to put down what I learn from the land, and how it affects me, an attempt to draw out the wilderness (the bird) within me.

Three sculptural works in this exhibition explore the interior space of the gallery and attempt to connect this contained space with an un-limiting (wilderness) space.

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Natural wilderness is more than just a place, it is a repository for a way of thinking that is at risk of being lost, as part of my commitment to wilderness, a percentage of the proceeds of this exhibition will go to Bush Heritage an organization dedicated to buying back bush (wilderness) and ensuring its survival, in perpetuity.

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