David Collins was awarded the Hornsby Shire Local Artist Award in the 2024 Hornsby Art Prize for his work Barrier Range.
During a recent Artist's Residency in Broken Hill, Collins was struck by the juxtaposition of the ancient, timeless land and the temporary, fragile human structures that sit on it. The steel mining equipment, railways, dwellings, and sheds that simultaneously impose themselves on the landscape and return to it through rust and decay.
The solid intensely coloured hills of the Barrier Ranges form the backdrop to impermanent, crumbling structures and reminders of our transience.
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September 23, 2024
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