Riverbend body series

Background: Creek's artwork investigates drawing-based diarisitc approach to inhabitation of the Landscape adressing ideas of local knowledge, art and public history through a residency model. Product of residencey awarded through Nillumbik Shire Council 2010. Project framed by practices of John Wolsely (2015) Heartlands & Headwaters, NGV, Melbourne and texts on Australian landscape as inscribed and contested territories, Carter (1996) Lie of the Land: Earth Body Material, Faber & Faber, London. Contribution: Work examines an accumualting, experiential approach to manifesting presence within the landscape. A body of mixed media works on paper document the relationship to the Yarra River, landscape forms and Creek's experience of living near the river. The work frames the landscape as a sort of body, which rather than through direct drawing or representing the Riverbend landscape as a metaphor as per Colonial art, Creek performed a range of body-prints in the Riverbend house itself. In accompany book archivist Jane Woollard states the artist's 'response to place became an investigation of his own material presence... a body-map', Woollard (2016: 232). Significance: Work curated by Nillumbik Shire council as part of Publication of exhbition Art, Lansdcape & Memory in Eltam and accompanying catalogue & publication, Woollard (2016) Laughing Waters Road. Publication states, Exhbition extends contemporary art practices in the context of historical art & crafts movements in Australia from 1930s to 1960s 'woven together with Wurundjeri, European and family histories' Artists include; Jill Orr, John Nixon, Sue Ford, Greg Pryor, Cameron Robbins.