Fluid Terrain

Commissioned by Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art
for ‘My Country, I Still Call Australia Home’ exhibition, June 1 - October 7 2013.

“…When combined, many works in ‘My Country’ effectively form a huge map, from near the Queensland/Northern Territory border in the east to the Western Australian coast. Each embodies a profound attachment to sites across the arid centre and western deserts, documenting a vital land, one far removed from ‘dead heart’ ideologies. Other works by senior and important Queensland artists tell of this state’s important places, while Megan Cope’s site-specific installation explores Aboriginal links to highly populated urban spaces by inserting (Ab)original place names on vintage military survey maps. Here, Cope worked with the landscape of the greater Brisbane region, connecting it to her Quandamooka (Moreton Bay and Stradbroke Island) people and grounding the exhibition in the country on which it is held…”

- Excerpt from MY COUNTRY: THIS LAND IS MINE / THIS LAND IS ME, written by Bruce McLean