Anti-aestheticizing Australian Landscape: Compounding Historical Narratives within Pictures

RESEARCH BACKGROUND: Greene's article, 'Anti-aestheticizing Australian Landscape: Compounding Historical Narratives within Pictures' gives an overview of his creative works that aspire to construct landscapes that carry multiple, rather than singular narratives as a means to explore Australia's extensive landscape tradition. This written piece appeared in the visual art section of 'Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language', Vol. 7 Issue 1 (2013). RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: The works described in the text respond to the tradition of landscape representation in Australia, whereby 'landscape' was appropriated to construct colonial, nation-building narratives with a disregard to lesser-known yet equally significant landscape histories such as Indigenous dispossession and genocide. Through description and discussion of his works, Greene suggests strategies for landscape depiction and expression that communicate past and present entanglements within Australian space. This written piece draws on and contributes to Greene's ongoing research practice exploring how multiple components of the urban landscape, including nature based phenomena, economic and political systems, impact the conceptualisation and design of urban wildness in public open space. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: 'Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language' is a respected journal that offers a platform for exploring the interrelationships between landscape and language, with a particular interest in ecocritical approaches. All submissions, including creative works, are rigorously refereed.