Penelope Rummery

Penelope Rummery's practice unsettles the colonial romanticisation of the productive landscape, capturing the subtle impression of soil through a collaboration with microbial life. Using ecological monitoring methodologies, she draws on scientific aesthetics to probe the systems that shape our connection to land while legitimising its exploitation. The excavated cloth and bleak images of Sunny Corner timber pine plantation present a converged landscape which is at once uninhabitable and stripped of its shelter yet bound to housing and industry. Penelope’s recent work was created on the unceded lands of the Wiradjuri and Gadigal peoples.