This work was created for an exhibition curated by John Barrett-Lennard entitled Flux and shown at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in Perth, Western Australia. Tidelands was partially created from a self organised residency in Berlin and brought a number of landscapes together; these included the abandoned embassy buildings in the former East Berlin, the outline of fault line which created the Darling Escarpment to the east of Perth and the legal border which identifies international waters off the Western Australian coastline. The shells placed on shelves along the wall follow the international water boundary and I have included shells that have been used in trade over many centuries throughout the world. A conch shell used by Indigenous peoples in Western Australia is also included as well as the rough outline demarcating Noonghar land by the first settlers (shown as an orange shape). The title of this work refers to the shifting economic and political borders of land.
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