Artist: Neville Gabie
Work: Wide Eyed and Legless (2006-07)
Location: Kellerberrin, Western Australia
Neville Gabie developed a series of works over a three-month period from October to December, 2006. The resulting work culminated in an exhibition in Kellerberrin (2006-07) with a UK exhibition with the Canterbury Museum and Art Gallery (2007) and Stour Valley Arts (2007). Aspects of the work were also exhibited at the Jerwood Space as part Of Space to Draw (2008).
Much of the work Neville Gabie did in Western Australia was based on filming the landscape using kites. The three short films use footage of the wheat belt, salt lakes and the spoils of a gold mine in Kalgoorlie. They include the voices of an Australian farmer, Tony York, an Aboriginal Elder Kathy Yarran and a geologist Marian Kehoe.
About the artist:
With a background in sculpture, Neville Gabie’s practice has always been driven by working in response to specific locations or situations caught in a moment of change. Highly urbanized or distantly remote, his work is a response to the vulnerability of place. Gabie’s interest is in establishing a working relationship within a particular community as a means of considering its physical, cultural or emotional geography.
