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February 21 2025, 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

FILM | Nature loves to hide: a film by Leonie van Eyk

Melbourne Art Fair
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 2A Clarendon St, South Wharf

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Leonie Van Eyk documents John Wolseley as he paints the habitat and architecture of desert mammals, birds and reptiles. Filmed in the Tanami, Great Sandy Desert and the Wimmera in Victoria. The film shows how the artist, often in camouflage, stealthily approaches and draws animals in their warrens, burrows, mounds, and nests. He climbs trees near his home in Victoria to document the nests of Treecreepers and Tawny Frogmouths. He draws Burrowing Bettongs and Greater Bilbies as they are returned to the Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s park at Newhaven. He is also fascinated by the communal dwellings of Great Desert Skinks with their basking mounds, latrines and birthing pools.  The film then follows him as he evolves the drawings into woodcuts, etchings and giant collaged mixed media works. 

Australian Galleries, (Naarm/Melbourne, Sydney/Gadigal Country) Booth M3

Image: Courtesy the artist and Australian Galleries. Photography by Iria Kuen.

FILM | Nature loves to hide: a film by Leonie van Eyk

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the place now called Victoria, and all First Peoples living and working on this land. We recognise and celebrate the cultural heritage, creative contributions, and stories of the First Peoples of Victoria. We pay respect to Elders of today, emerging Elders of tomorrow and Elders of the past.

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