Jillian FitzpatrickWet Stone

Jillian Fitzpatrick, Wet Stone

Created from a dream of basalt columns on limestone, Wet Stone, is 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 medium, relying on the immiscibility of grease, water and acid mirroring the geological processes that form our world – erosion, heat and pressure shaping, transformed and recycled over time. Like a lithography stone which can be used, grained and used over and over again. 

Accompanying these works are reimagined and transformed geological landscapes with rock-like shapes, using forms such as; eel heads, ant hills, fish in spotlights and birds on buoys. These works intend to reflect on natural and human artifacts that resemble geological structures. These colourful works serve as both visual counterpoints and conceptual supports to the monochrome prints – geological structures re-imagined. Eel heads rise like stalagmites from mud, birds on buoys form archipelagos at sea, spotlighted fish pinnacles and ants create their own dramatic mountainscapes. 

Image: Jillian Fitzpatrick, drawing on lithostone