Evie Homewood

I see the landscape as a politicised and emotionally loaded space. Deliberate mark-making references disputed borders, contested lines, and blurred boundaries. Experimental drawing underpins my practice, including site activation, drone photography, video, Plein air drawing, and steel sculpture.  

 

Intrepid is the result of following a concept through different dimensions and mediums. It began with a flare I lit and filmed on Box Beach in Port Stephens during the July 2021 lockdown, followed by drawings informed by the video footage, and finally to the kinetic sculpture. The flare is a visual distress signal, an emergency line. In this sense, the signal became a literal line of anxiety, travelling through time, space and mediums. 

 

More recently, in the body of work Defiant, I am again consumed by experimental line, its movement and surrounding space -space around borders, their contested control and the literal and metaphorical shadows cast. The drone footage again introduces new space and landscape proportions whilst also alluding to aspects of modern warfare perspectives.

 

These works started as Plein air drawings tracking time, tide, wind, swell and place. The process and experience are central to these more emotional and political narratives, from morning coastal landscape sketching to evening long shadow reflections, environmentally affected lines by cold nights, sand flies, and evening La Nina rains. 

 

Mapping the experience of the marine landscape-its magnitude, changeability, and fragility is in response to working on the sea. Much of my process produces ephemeral work, immersed in saltwater, rubbed out, drawn over, and related to the elements. The history of deterioration is evident, and part of the evolution in many of the works exhibited. The intention is to capture being one with the sea and its implicit political, emotional, and environmental ramifications.