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Content Published October 25, 2015

SNOWDONIA Artist Book SOLD

Pen and Ink and hand-stitching.

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Content Published October 25, 2015

FLOODLINES, Snowdonia NFS

Collage, pen and ink and hand-stitching.

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Content Published October 24, 2015

CARING FOR COUNTRY

My work, “Caring for Country”, references Australia’s First People who have a relationship to country that transcends the majority of non-Aboriginals. They believe that land is not a commodity to be bought and sold. This relationship has survived intact despite the destructive impact of European settlement. The Northern Land Council, in 1995, created the Caring for Country Unit to help Aboriginal landowners deal with new land and sea management challenges they were facing. Today, mining the landscape has irrevocably altered the geological structure of the physical environment. In “Caring for Country”, I have used a surgeon’s scalpel to incise and transform a book of volcanoes into a site for mining. In mine-sites we rupture the landscape in much the same way as a volcano during an eruption. I mine deep into the pages of the book with a scalpel and feel the pain of Australia’s First People as it slices through the surface to the subcutaneous layers beneath. For centuries Aboriginals left only footprints as they moved seasonally across the landscape. What footprint will be our legacy?

Fiona Rafferty Reminiscence – A Tribute to Judith Wright – (Bowral) September 2015

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Content Published May 18, 2015

Artist book - Snowdonia 3

Artist Book and Screen Print Installation View

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2016 ADELAIDE PERRY DRAWING PRIZE "SALINITY" FINALIST

Finalists announced in the 2016 Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize. Rafferty's drawing "Salinity" is a finalist in this year's prize. The winner of the $25,000 a acquisitive award will be announced on 26 February at a gala opening in Sydney/ Read more
2016 WATERHOUSE NATURAL SCIENCE PRIZE "SHELLACKED" - FINALIST

The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize was launched in 2002 and commemorates the birth of the South Australian Museum’s first curator, Frederick George Waterhouse. The prize is an opportunity for artists to investigate the world around them, and… Read more
NANCY FAIRFAX STUDIO RESIDENCY - Tweed River Art Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre - September 2017

In September 2017 Rafferty spent two weeks as Artist in Residence at the Tweed River Art Gallery and Margaret Olley Centre in the Nancy Fairfax studio. Her current work relates to the view of Mt Warning from the studio. Read more

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