Regional Arts Triennial, Margaret River, WA
Radical Futures - GATHERING GROUNDARTIST STATEMENT
In response to the exhibition’s themes of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’, my artwork considers the Australian landscape with an acute awareness of our complex history.
The land I inhabit (Wadandi Boodja - Saltwater People’s Country) is protected by a conservation covenant - my role is one of stewardship rather than belonging. Daily walks through the bush - listening to sounds, noticing scents, and observing seasonal change is a privilege.
My painting titled ‘Gathering Ground – Home’, focuses on a creek zone where a new culvert, collected rocks, and native plants have been positioned in an attempt to keep erosion at bay. Heavy rains however still flood the area - it’s a learning curve seeing what remains and what gets washed away. An uprooted Blackbutt tree (a recent casualty) speaks to painterly notions of control and surrender.Shape Shift - Kubota and Shape Shift - Metamorphosis are simplified biomorphic forms - a departure from the rectangular format and a metaphor perhaps for evolution and renewal. Similarly, smaller works operate as fragments found and formed from home, where native and introduced species coexist.
In a world unsettled by conflict, these artworks offer quiet acts of joy, meditations on home, transformation, diversity and the enduring solace of making.
Jane Tangney, 2026
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Gathering Ground - Home
Regional Arts Triennial, Margaret River, WA
Radical Futures - GATHERING GROUND
ARTIST STATEMENT
In response to the exhibition’s themes of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’, my artwork considers the Australian landscape with an acute awareness of our complex history.
The land I inhabit (Wadandi Boodja - Saltwater People’s Country) is protected by a conservation covenant - my role is one of stewardship rather than belonging. Daily walks through the bush - listening to sounds, noticing scents, and observing seasonal change is a privilege.
My painting titled ‘Gathering Ground – Home’, focuses on a creek zone where a new culvert, collected rocks, and native plants have been positioned in an attempt to keep erosion at bay. Heavy rains however still flood the area - it’s a learning curve seeing what remains and what gets washed away. An uprooted Blackbutt tree (a recent casualty) speaks to painterly notions of control and surrender.
Shape Shift - Kubota and Shape Shift - Metamorphosis are simplified biomorphic forms - a departure from the rectangular format and a metaphor perhaps for evolution and renewal. Similarly, smaller works operate as fragments found and formed from home, where native and introduced species coexist.
In a world unsettled by conflict, these artworks offer quiet acts of joy, meditations on home, transformation, diversity and the enduring solace of making.
Jane Tangney, 2026
Gathering Ground - Home, 2025. natural earth pigments, oil and beeswax on canvas. 130 cm (h) x 240 cm (w)
(left to right) Terra, 2025, natural earth pigment on paper mache | Olive Branch, 2025, oil and gesso on olive wood | Smoke Haze, 2025, oil on linen in 2 parts | Found + Formed, 2025, gesso and acrylic on found wood | Granite Seam, 2025, sand, glue, plaster on surfboard blank | Cut, 2025, natural earth pigment on paper mache
(left) Shape Shift - Kubota, 2025, gesso, oil and beeswax on plywood, 112 cm (h) x 142 cm (w) (right) Shape Shift - Metamorphosis, 2025, gesso, oil and beeswax on plywood, 120 cm (h) x 155 cm (w)
(clockwise from top left) Pasture, 2025 oil and gesso on boards | Counterpoint, 2025, oil, balsa wood collage and gesso on board | Spinning Gum, 2022, thread and acrylic on formed balsa wood, found stick | Sawtooth II, 2024, oil on linen | Contour, 2025, natural earth pigment, sand and plaster | Connection, 2025, natural earth pigments, oil and beeswax on boards | (centre) Hollow, 2025, burnt bark