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Kirrily Anderson: and tomorrow the beauty returns

A series of small pencil and charcoal artworks of leaves and plants regrowing in bushfire affected areas. Two blurry silhouettes of people look at the exhibitions.

Kirrily Anderson
Mount Buffalo, 2021
Ink & watercolour
Image courtesy of the artist

And tomorrow the beauty returns presented works by North East Victorian artist Kirrily Anderson that considered the period after the Black Summer bushfires of 2019/20. Chiltern based Anderson is well known for her highly detailed drawing practice and environmentally engaged public murals.

Three large charcoal works depicted the proportion of parkland burnt during the devasting fire season. The remaining drawings balanced the harsh impacts of the fires against environmental renewal and recovery.

The significant sculptural installation Epilogue was a work conceived in dialogue with bushfire affected residents near Walwa. In this area the landscape had been dramatically changed by the fires, with burnt vegetation and undergrowth giving way, resulting in landslides pummeling properties.

With these works, Anderson reflected on the destruction that has occurred as a means to find the hope that remains. For each challenge there was promise, and in the blackened landscape there remained beauty.

A charcoal artwork of a burned out piece of wood, blackened by fires.
Kirrily Anderson

Fortitude, 2021
Ink and Black Summer charcoal paint on paper
and tomorrow the beauty returns, Murray Art Museum Albury
Image by Jeremy Weihrauch

A series of small pencil and charcoal artworks of leaves and plants regrowing in bushfire affected areas.
Kirrily Anderson

and tomorrow the beauty returns, Murray Art Museum Albury, 2021
Image by Jeremy Weihrauch

Three canvas all the same size with different percentages of the canvas painted in black charcoal paint based on the damage of National Parks from bushfires.
Kirrily Anderson

and tomorrow the beauty returns, Murray Art Museum Albury, 2021
Image by Jeremy Weihrauch

An installation of brown and pink rocks spilling out of a door like a landslide.
Kirrily Anderson

Epilogue, 2021
Installation view
and tomorrow the beauty returns, Murray Art Museum Albury
Image by Jeremy Weihrauch

In a white exhibition space a detailed hand drawing of a burned out piece of wood is visible in the foreground. In the distance smaller artworks of plants and leaves are slightly visible
Kirrily Anderson

and tomorrow the beauty returns, Murray Art Museum Albury, 2021
Image by Jeremy Weihrauch

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