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Rick Andersen is a regional artist living on the outskirts of Bega in southern New South Wales.
The gestural drawings on canvas and paper are frequently done with a feather and include natural ochres sourced locally. Ochres are also used in the oils on canvas.
Abstract assemblages of recycled wood and the found object link culture and land through iconic symbolic shapes and weathered surfaces.
“Rick Andersen uses the marks in the landscape as metaphors for the human journey and its occupation over the land. While a kind of depiction of the land, his paintings and drawings are less about the land itself than a portrait of the human footprint. The scars on the land in these pictures are wounds that the passage of time is growing over. There is a quiet inevitability about them – a quietness, to my mind, that only time can produce.”
Richard Maude, Curator, “Valley To The Sea”
Bega Valley Regional Gallery 2006
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