Katherine BOLAND

At the age of four I emigrated from England to Australia with my parents and younger sister. It was a six week voyage by passenger ship and most of our time was spent on deck staring apprehensively into the unknown distance. Thus began a fascination with the horizon.

Until my mid teens I lived on Lake King in East Gippsland, Victoria looking across the often wild water at the distant shore. Once again my parents decided to traverse the oceans and return by ship to the UK. I remember standing on deck with mixed feelings of grief and excitement until I could no longer see Australia. It took a good two hours. Later we moved to Spain on the Costa Brava and lived in a villa set in an almond grove over looking the Mediterranean, another new and fascinating vista.

By the time I left home I had become well and truly captivated by that mesmerizing horizontal line and all it had come to represent – the mysterious and unfamiliar. There was a road trip across the Nullabor Plain, two years living in Balmoral, Sydney with a view of the Heads and the ships sailing out to sea. Then finally settling on the Far South Coast of New South Wales perched high on a ridge looking up river to the ocean.

Now a very different horizon appears as I walk along the banks of Port Phillip Bay each day - the moody cityscape of Melbourne.

This latest body of work explores the memories and feelings about the ever changing and ethereal horizon and the sense of possibility it arouses. The horizon is an intangible concept, an illusion. It will lead us onwards but forever evade us.

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