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In ‘The land, again’ artist Caroline McQuarrie challenges us to consider how we view land and landscape.
Tracing one history of land use in Aotearoa New Zealand, the exhibition, which is created almost entirely from wool, depicts traditional sheep farming landscapes which we are encouraged to consider as human-made constructs. Utilising weaving and cross stitch at an expanded scale, the works reflect both human-centric ways of viewing landscape, and the differing ways we conceptualise land as its cultural value changes when economic imperatives shift.
McQuarrie asks how our understanding of these landscapes alter as they are further converted for regeneration of native bush or economic diversification into forestry.