Wild Island

Celebrating nature in Tasmania

Current Exhibiton

Group Exhibition

Amanda Walker Rob Blakers Chris Salmon

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Wild Island Gallery

April 2021

Amanda Walker

Amanda Walker’s work primarily consists of drawing and photography, creating multi-layered works that interweave a narrative of an emerging landscape with history, duration and geological time. Her actions of repetition and layering respond to fragments of experiences brought together to recall or suggest our movement within the landscape.
Amanda completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Deans Roll of Excellence with Honours at the University of Tasmania 2012. Her most recent exhibition was in collaboration with scientists from the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, Tasmania. Directly responding to their research helped her to understand that there are limits to our knowledge, and as habitat and species are lost forever, monitoring, measuring, preservation and protection are critical to survival. Through her work, Amanda continues to seek to understand the connections that emerge between the vulnerability of the landscape and our connectedness with nature.

Rob Blakers

Rob Blakers has photographed in the wild places of Tasmania for over 40 years. His interests lie in landscape, environmental conservation and the evolution of photographic methods and values in the age of digital technology.

Chris Salmon

Chris Salmon is a ceramicist and painter who grew up on a midlands sheep farm but now lives and works on Tasmania’s pristine south east coast. Her current work is concerned with questioning how often we really get to experience the landscape. With the constant stress of day to day deadlines, often all we see of country is on the periphery.
Chris has a Diploma in Art Craft and Design in print making and a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in painting. She has work in collections throughout Australia, America, Europe and Canada.