CREATIVEMOVE at Cairns Indigenous Art Fair

For CIAF 2015, Brian Robinson has produced two stunning limited edition lino prints printed with Theo Tremblay at Editions Tremblay NFP and presented at KickArts Contemporary Arts Gallery and at the Cairns Cruise Liner Terminal. CREATIVEMOVE is very excited to be partnering with KickArts to present these editions.

For CIAF 2015, Brian Robinson has produced two stunning limited edition lino prints – both printed by Theo Tremblay at Editions Tremblay and presented at KickArts Contemporary Arts Gallery and at the Cairns Cruise Liner Terminal. Both editions are produced on paper and fabric, and derive directly from Brian’s 2014 public art commissions – Warual at the Lady Cilento Children’s’ Hospital (LCCH) and Waru Kazi at the Centre for Children’s Health Research (CCHR) in Brisbane. These commissions commenced as carved lino discs, from which concrete discs were cast then installed on site.  As Brian suggests, these public art works:

. . . explore the migration patterns of turtles, particularly Green turtles, Loggerhead turtles and Hawksbill Turtles along Queensland’s east coast and Great Barrier Reef paralleling the journey sick children take across the State to access health facilities and their road to recovery. [Brian Robinson, Concept Design statement, 2014]

These embedded ground plane discs, collectively titled Warual (which means group of turtles in the Western Torres Strait Island language of Kala Lagaw Ya), explore the migration patterns of turtles, particularly Green turtles, Loggerhead turtles and Hawksbill Turtles along Queensland east coast and Great Barrier Reef. The disc designs also reflect complex network of coral branches akin to the hospital’s strategic design parameters of ‘tree and branches’. They also encompass and highlight the links between botany, medicine and art.

The concept for the CCHR project relates closely to environmental and medicinal themes of the LCCH in that it explores the conceptual framework of embryonic beginnings expressed through turtle hatchlings Waru Kazi [meaning young turtle]. It creates an extension of the Warual concept by exploring the migration patterns of three particular turtle species – Hawksbill turtle, Green turtle and Loggerhead turtle and include visual representations of the three types of turtle hatchlings.  These artworks create simplified yet texturally rich and dynamic works that explore the natural environment of Queensland’s east coast and Great Barrier Reef and form part of the Centre’s ground plane experience.

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