EVOLVE, Artists of the Round Yard Inc. Retford Park, Bowral. 18 February to 16 May 2022

The Round Yard, Retford Park

Toni Warburton, Artist, Evolve

(Left) What the land has lost (container for borrowed views), 27x53x140cm, ceramic painted and stained with pigments and glazes, 2018. 

(Right) bark canoe/stone castle/concrete redoubt/showboat (narrative sculpture), 20cmx28cmx20cm, Hand modelled ceramic, painted and stained with pigments and glazes. fired with green electricity.

Toni Warburton, Artist, Evolve

bark canoe/stone castle/concrete redoubt/showboat (narrative sculpture), 20cmx28cmx20cm, Hand modelled ceramic, painted and stained with pigments and glazes. fired with green electricity.

Toni Warburton, Artist, Evolve

bark canoe/stone castle/concrete redoubt/showboat (narrative sculpture), 20cmx28cmx20cm, Hand modelled ceramic, painted and stained with pigments and glazes. fired with green electricity.

Toni Warburton, Artist, Evolve
Toni Warburton, Artist, Evolve
Toni Warburton, Artist, Evolve
Toni Warburton, Artist, Evolve
Toni Warburton, Artist, Evolve

container for fresh water, 2017. 28x26x22cm, Log impressed container, buff clay painted with ochre terra sigillata, midfired . (After an adzed burl bucket by Mrs Davies seen at the Mirlirrtjarra Art Collection, Ngaanyatjarra Lands, Warburton Ranges WA.) fired with green electricity.

Toni Warburton, Artist, Evolve

Mortal coil (kan, 坎, abyss), 30x40x27cm, glazed ceramic. fired with green electricity.

The White Cottage Gallery, Retford Park

Toni Warburton, Artist, Evolve

Apparition: mind’s eye ellipse (after JD), 2018. Object painting ceramic, engobes, glazes, fired with green electricity.

My artworks presented in Evolve acknowledge the knowledge, insights and actions embedded in continuing Aboriginal cultural traditions of taking care of place and the insights and actions of environmentalists, scientists and land care workers who contribute to caring for the natural environment through layers of time and habitation.

The abyss of limpid water became a portal that returned me to the shores of Middle Harbour to follow pathways to stories of the Cammeraygal and Birrabirrigal people, of Bangalay bark canoes, plentiful game and shellfish, freshwater streams, waterfalls. A convivial abode contested by European arrivals.

For the Birrabirrigal culture, sandstone formed shelters and galleries for their rock engravings. Europeans laboured the stone into boundary walls, rockeries, viewing chairs, tidal pools and steps to the water’s edge.

© Toni Warburton February 2022.