{"id":3773,"date":"2020-06-01T12:56:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T12:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/?page_id=3773"},"modified":"2020-06-11T06:28:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T06:28:17","slug":"the-pilbara-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/?page_id=3773","title":{"rendered":"11 The Pilbara Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cat.png\" alt=\"cat\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"567\" width=\"1146\" title=\"cat\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<p>Front and back covers of the catalogue<\/p>\n\t<h2>\n\t\t\t\t\tThe Pilbara Collection\n\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>is related to my sense of place, to my land and its contradictions. It continued my exploration of those\u00a0 formal concerns, colour and form. The inspiration was the vast landscape of North West Australia with its rugged landforms which contrast so remarkably with the delicate colouration observed in the dawn or evening skies. It is a celebration of the beauty that can be found in even the harshest of terrain. Contrasts and visual contradictions have long fascinated me. The implication that something is not what it appears to be is contained within the work. Hard stone is used for soft pillow shapes, illusory shadows in grooves appear to constrain.<\/p>\n<p>This work was shown at Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, and Galerie am Graben Vienna in 1983, in Galerie Dusseldorf in Perth, Gallery 62 in Newcastle, and Narek Gallery ACT in\u00a0 1984.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Chrysoprase-neckpiece-.png\" alt=\"Chrysoprase neckpiece\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"567\" width=\"480\" title=\"Chrysoprase neckpiece\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Picture1-1.png\" alt=\"Picture1\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"150\" width=\"128\" title=\"Picture1\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Pilbara-brooch.png\" alt=\"Pilbara brooch\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"567\" width=\"480\" title=\"Pilbara brooch\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mookaite-Neckpiece-.png\" alt=\"Mookaite Neckpiece\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"567\" width=\"480\" title=\"Mookaite Neckpiece\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Picture2-2.png\" alt=\"Picture2\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"150\" width=\"128\" title=\"Picture2\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Pilbara-rings.png\" alt=\"Pilbara rings\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"567\" width=\"480\" title=\"Pilbara rings\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<p>Poem written for the Pilbara Collection catalogue.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Pilbara-ring.png\" alt=\"Pilbara ring with Mookaite\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"567\" width=\"417\" title=\"Pilbara ring\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\tPilbara ring with Mookaite\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Pilbara-poem-cat.-1.png\" alt=\"Pilbara poem cat.\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"567\" width=\"569\" title=\"Pilbara poem cat.\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Front and back covers of the catalogue The Pilbara Collection is related to my sense of place, to my land and its contradictions. It continued my exploration of those\u00a0 formal concerns, colour and form. The inspiration was the vast landscape of North West Australia with its rugged landforms which contrast so remarkably with the delicate &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/?page_id=3773\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">11 The Pilbara Collection<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3163,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3773","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4952,"href":"https:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3773\/revisions\/4952"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorothyerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}