Dylan Sarra features in a group exhibition Volatile Terrain showing at The Condensery in Toogoolawah QLD until 27 April 2025.
Volatile Terrain is The Condensery’s inaugural Harvest Biennial exhibition and provides an opportunity to examine how humanity lives on Earth, as well as interacts, destructs and rehabilitates it.
Curated by Cara-Ann Simpson the exhibition features the work of
BONITA ELY, CASSANDRA HODGINS, DYLAN SARRA, JIM FILMER, JUDY WATSON, KATE GECK, MARIAN DREW, MEGAN COPE & KEG DE SOUZA, NAOMI MCKENZIE, PRITA TINA YEGANEH, SANDI HOOK, SHIRLEY GREGOR.
Dylan Sarra’s rubbings of the Burnett River Petroglyphs respond to the Queensland government’s removal of culturally significant rock drawings in 1971. Without consulting the Traditional Custodians, more than ninety-two large sandstones were fractured and removed to make way for a dam wall.
Dylan Sarra’s work explores how a creative arts practice can reconnect cultural iconography, which has become decontextualised through its removal.
Through using frottage (the technique or process of taking a rubbing from an uneven surface), muslin cloth was placed over the original artefacts and natural charcoal rubbed over the material to expose ancient carvings previously not visible.
Dylan Sarra’s work explores how a creative arts practice can reconnect cultural iconography, which has become decontextualised through its removal.
Through using frottage (the technique or process of taking a rubbing from an uneven surface), muslin cloth was placed over the original artefacts and natural charcoal rubbed over the material to expose ancient carvings previously not visible.
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