When the fires came

A Together In Art Pocket Exhibition curated by Rachel Piercy

The fires came with such ferocity to our regional community. They changed us.

We lost a human life. We lost homes. We lost animals and habitat in too large a number and too large and area to comprehend.

Many artists have used fire to question our practices and our place in the world. I have chosen these artworks as a way to reflect on destruction, resilience and regeneration.

Rachel Piercy is the director of Manning Regional Art Gallery

AGNSW collection Fred Williams Burnt landscape, Upwey no 1 1968

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/281.1990/

AGNSW collection Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri Warlugulong 1976

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/321.1981/

AGNSW collection Shaun Gladwell Maximus swept out to sea (Wattamolla) 2012-2013

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/37.2014.a-b/

AGNSW collection Hossein Valamanesh Longing belonging 1997

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/207.2002.a-b/

AGNSW collection Janet Laurence The memory of nature 2010

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/125.2012.a-cc/

AGNSW collection Rosemary Laing groundspeed (Red Piazza) #4 2001

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/451.2001/

AGNSW collection Rusty Peters Waterbrain 2002

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/97.2002.a-h/