Landscape & Memory: Sacred sites

Since graduating with the prize in Printmaking at the South Australian School of Art, Belinda Allen has worked for many years in a variety of printing, photographic and digital media, sometimes incorporating painting, drawing and sculptural assemblage. She lives in Bundeena in the Royal National Park south of Sydney, and exhibits in solo and group exhibitions in Sydney and nationally. Her work has been selected in recent years for exhibition in the Blake Prize, the ‘Sydney Life’ Photographic exhibition in Hyde Park, Sydney, the Hazelhurst Biennial Art on Paper award, the Olive Cotton Portrait prize, and the National Work on Paper Prize.

Belinda has been exploring landscape, place and belonging since relocating from Sydney to the Royal National Park in 1990. Her photographic work has ranged across media, including on wood, stone, and vintage books, as well as different printmaking media such as screen print and etching. The proposed exhibition uses photographs from travels to locations in Australia, as well as the local landscape and personal historical images. It also uses gathered detritus of Australian plants and other objects to print directly onto paper and fabric.

As well as photographed textures of natural and urban landscape, sources for her work include mythological, historical and religious texts, documents and literature.