Southern Cross to bear and behold – Burning
(2007)
from the Southern Cross to bear and behold series 2007
Medium
inkjet print
Measurements
65.5 × 134.9 cm (image) 87.7 × 155.7 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2010
© Courtesy of the artist
Gallery location
Gallery 11
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
Jill Orr’s Southern Cross to Bear and Behold series captures the artist walking across the crusted white expanse of salt at Mitre Lake in western Victoria. The dark footprints left on the surface of the lake are Orr’s own. This bodily mark-making positions performance as inscription: past actions are made visible. In this way, body and landscape merge, symbolising humanity’s precarious and scarring relationship with the environment.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Mitre Lake, Wimmera, Victoria
Inscription
None
Accession Number
2010.6
Department
Australian Photography
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Professor AGL Shaw AO Bequest