Artwork: In distance 2009
Artist: Jessica Loughlin
Medium: kiln formed glass
Dimensions: 61 x 41cm
Acquisition: An acquisition of the ACT Legislative Assembly Art Advisory Committee, 2010
Asset no: OLA001958
About the Work
This work is inspired by the atmospherics and ambiguities of Lake Gairdner, a salt lake in South Australia. Landscapes such as this are a constant theme in her work, an unreachable place that she describes as ‘looking at space, the space between here...and there.’ Like the lake the artist’s process takes it form from evaporation. Loughlin describes how she allows powdered glass to move across a glass surface with water. She then leaves ‘the water to evaporate: it leaves an imprint—a watermark—in the glass.’