Ground

Image source Taj Kempe

Artist: Audrey Frenandes-Satar, Arif Satar

Asset Type: Mural

Year of Work: 2020

Location: Lot 5 Medic Street (Flooring Xtra side wall)

Provenance: Shire of Collie

Description: Ground is a panoptic drawing of the hills draped with patterns inspired by banksia seed pods, calling attention to the fragility of Collie’s ancient landscape where the river flows gently. Here, the richness of black coal emerges to balance the built environment, reminding us of the preciousness of the land and our interaction with it.

Conceptually, Ground is an act of drawing where moments in history are touched upon in gestures of ideation, such as historical buildings, housing for immigrants layered with threads of embroidery that made this place home. But most importantly, it is the soft hills of Collie that take centre stage, laboriously covered in patterns to remind us to look at the ground we walk on.