CreatorTony ColeingTitleUntitled Event 9Date2012-2013MediumInkjet print on canvas (stretched)DimensionsH. 80cm x W. 120cmArtist StatementIn 2014/2015 Coleing exhibited a body of digital artworks titled ‘Unknowns in the time of climate change.’ The digital photographs that he used to create these images were primarily taken at Grassy Head Beach.Accession NumberG2024.9.19Credit LineDonated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Tony Coleing and Shayne HigsonAccess AdviceFor research purposes only. No reproduction without permission of Yarrila Arts and Museum.
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Significance Statement
Where are we heading? Into what strange landscapes?
“Everyone is still trying to work it out,” says Coleing.
His latest series of digital prints contemplate the unknown. Floating fractal forms, superimposed onto photographs of sea and sky and ground, are suitably ambiguous. Alien space ships? New species? Weather events? Portals into another world? Mountains unmoored from the earth’s crust?
The mysterious forms in Coleing’s prints are in fact extrapolated from photographs of landscape. They are landscapes taken to digital extremes; inverted and rasterised.
In a time of climate change, natural environments are rapidly transforming – rainforests extending into savannas, tundras becoming grassy fields, islands drowning one by one. But exactly what awaits us around the corner is hard to pin down.
Coleing presents us with spectres of our future, hovering, just out of the reach of words.
[Written by Chloe Watson, 2014 for Utopia Art Sydney]
