Jillian FitzpatrickWet Stone

Strange geologies and deteriorating landscapes: Wet Stone began as a dream of basalt columns on limestone and grew into an exploration of geology, memory and repetition. In this exhibition the medium of lithography is used to explore shapes and textures of submerged Australian landscapes from sandstone rubble to quartzite caves. These landscapes echo the materiality of lithography as a medium, relying on the immiscibility of grease, water and acid mirroring the geological processes that form our world, erosion, heat and pressure that shapes, transforms and recycles over time. Like a lithography stone which can be used, grained and used over and over again until it’s discarded.

Accompanying these works are reimagined and transformed geological landscapes with rock-like shapes, eel heads, termite mounds, fish in spotlights and birds on buoys. These works intend to reflect on natural and human artefacts that resemble geological structures. These colourful works serve as both visual counterpoints and conceptual supports to the monochrome prints, geological structures reimagined.

Image: Jillian Fitzpatrick, drawing on lithostone