The Tide of Sustainability is an exhibition of earth pigments on paper and board by Anna Reynolds. The work celebrates beauty and life found in nature, specifically Dawin Harbour. The sedimentary Porcelanite rock found framing Darwin harbour creates a colour palette while the contrast of human activity against a backdrop of flora and fauna flourish as subject matter. The exhibition utilises handmade paper to locate the slow sustainable word of the true maker. The substrate of this work has been gifted and made by Darwin’s master paper maker Winsome Jobling using natural textile waste previously generated in Cloth by Artist Anna Reynolds’s atelier.

Anna Reynolds calls audiences to considered this work a mark of protest in the wake of development and trade that continue to compromise the pristine environment found in Darwin Harbour. The ebb and flow of a deliberate method/action creating conversation and awareness around the beauty of the natural world, traditional crafts, of computational plastic culture and a subsequent cost to environment in the wake of industrial development and digital proliferation.

Hung as the ideas, blueprints and simple plans for a future that cherishes natural environments and protects them from harm. A tangible world tangled with mangrove mangle and the paint of an earthly tidal flux pay homage to bird, crab and fish in the hope that humanity can make the connection. 

Visit her website for more information about Anna Reynolds.

Opening Friday 19 September at 5:30pm

Tactile Arts Gallery 
19 Conacher St, The Gardens, NT

Gallery Hours: 

Tuesday to Saturday - 10am to 2pm

(Please Note: The gallery is only open during exhibitions and does not open on public holidays)