Osmosis Artists

2011 Exhibition

• Osmosis Artists 2011

Margot Welsh

Margot recently finished a Masters of Art, Design and the Environment, at the University’s School of Art, majoring in painting. Throughout her career she has also worked with photography, drawing and mixed media. Initially, whilst teaching in Melbourne, she studied Fine Art at R.M.I.T., but then moved to Flinders Island, the source of on-going and constant inspiration, where she lived and taught for most of the last twenty years. She has participated in a number of group shows and has had three solo exhibitions. Currently, she is working at MONA.

Artist Statement

Seeking The Source of the Derwent, an early morning fog cocooned majestic trees and formed lacey tunnels of light that led me down the twisting tracks. No birds sang – the silence was complete – as if nothing wished to wake the nearby lake. From soft light broken only by spangled leaves and cobwebs, shadowy images morphed, forming ever-beckoning signs and shrines in my mind. Despite the sun eventually penetrating the rising mist and revealing the widening expanse of waiting water, I knew of course, that the journey and the source had always been one.

It was as if I was moving towards some sort of central presence, something that would reveal itself from the mist of that foggy morning when it was ready. Allowing myself to be led along the tracks I felt as if I was being guided and that the presence was allowing me to be there. The experience was intense and unexpected. I hope the images accurately relate the story of my experience. The final photographs ended up being nothing like I had I had been imagining before embarking on the journey – once there, the trees, the weather conditions and, of course, the lake itself, had taken control. Such unexpected interaction is what I find most exciting about relating to place. My camera became the medium.

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