Eucalyptus Printed Cloth, India Flint. Image courtesy of India Flint.
INDIA FLINT
India Flint’s work conflates the visual and written poetics of place and memory, using walking, drawing, assemblage, dyeing, stitch, image-making and text as a means of mapping country, recoding and recording responses to landscape - working with cloth, paper, stone, windfall biological material, water, minerals, bones, the discarded artefacts and hard detritus of human habitation, the local weed burden. She negotiates a path between installation, printing, painting, drawing, writing and sculpture, philosophically rooted in topophilia (the love of place).
Fellow artist Chris Orchard has described the work as “using the earth as printing plate, and time as the press”. Flint has been engaged with plant dyes and earth pigments primarily in the visual arts and occasionally in costume design for contemporary dance (including Leigh Warren + Dancers & the WA Ballet) for over thirty years and is represented in museum collections in Australia, the USA and Europe. Her knowledge and research has been shared in several books (most notably Eco Colour 2008, Second Skin 2011, both published by Murdoch Books) and through an increasingly intense domestic and international workshop program (since 1998). Consequently, what were once seen as signature techniques have been widely adopted around the globe.
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Ochre worksite, outback Australia, India Flint. Image courtesy of India Flint.
Eucalyptus Printed Cloth, India Flint. Image courtesy of India Flint.
Sacred soils. Image courtesy of India Flint.