Catherine Hearse’s delicate crocheted sculptures and works on paper straddle both the animal and vegetable worlds. She creates astonishing individuals, subtle characters who often convey deep political sensibilities.
The threat to habitat, farming and human health from onshore gas mining is represented in works like Gasfield Girl. Much of the fertile East Coast of Australia is currently under threat from this process, but community opposition has resulted in a moratorium on fracking and all on-shore gas mining in Victoria.
In the US, Queensland and NSW the practice has resulted in habitat fragmentation, water and farmland contamination, and severe illnesses in humans. Gasfield Girl wears the scars of this destructive process on her body.
Watters Gallery
14 April to 2 May, 2015
Sydney
Gasfield Girl, 2014, watercolour, ink, found metal, cotton on paper, 29 x 21cm
Courtesy the artist and Watters Gallery, Sydney
