Virginia Ward featured in The West Australian

Virginia Ward’s boots scuff the red earth, and from her extensive journeys to remote places all over WA comes her new exhibition All The Litter Things.

The artworks are textural designs on timber forms — the dust, earth, and mud of the Great Victoria Desert, the Kimberley, and Pilbara, brought to the Art Collective gallery behind St George’s Cathedral in Perth.

Pindan Earth brings home the red of all sorts of remote desert spots in the interior of Western Australia.

Small amounts of resin come from marble gum trees, where it has oozed and set and cracked off, ruby-red and shiny, deep in our inland.

Some of the pigment was bought from an art centre in the Kimberley (which is particularly relevant to this story, as you will see).

And there are leaf motifs of WA’s rare flora, particularly the huge, statement crescents of eucalyptus brandiana, named for Grady Brand (which, again, is a big part of this story, as you will see).

Read the full the story by Stephen Scourfield via The West Australian