Above: Anne Morrison, The Narrows, 40 x 56 cm, 2018, digital print on composite aluminium, , (1/5 ed and 1 AP )

Don College Art Department, teacher Lisa Garland, and assistant Anne Morrison, have generously donated artworks to an auction which will raise funds for UNICEF.

The Butterfly Effect online auction, featuring works donated by 100 artists, will be held live and closes on August 18 at 7pm. The money raised will serve as emergency relief funds to help families and children who have been displaced in Ukraine due to the ongoing war. 

Launceston Church Grammar organised the event and the artworks will be exhibited at Piomena Gallery August 22– September 2.

Works can be viewed here and if you would like to bid on a work or make a donation, you can do that here too:  Stand With Ukraine - The Butterfly Effect Art Auction | AirAuctioneer

Anne Morrison's ‘The Narrows’ 2018, is part of a suite of artworks titled ‘The Crossings’, comprising of paintings and digital prints created in response to historical and contemporary photographs of women, boats and artefacts associated with the sea, rivers and waterways. Watercolours are layered with detailed drawings and digital manipulation techniques. People and places seem to fade in and out of view, suggestive of the experience of sifting through recorded history. Fluid watercolours flood the surface of primed paper and as the water evaporates Morrison works back into the patterns left behind seeking to evoke a sense of presence through absence as the figures and objects remain visible only as a subtle trace, a watermark. Droplets of pigment disperse through streams of water creating tributaries relating to the ebb and flow of the tides, nets and networks. Fine line drawings of and references to historical maps, bathymetric charts and photographs are layered behind and over the figures and objects. This process of layering and re-layering visual information digitally, echo how easily fragments of history can be lost and buried, and yet sometimes something is found; a trace, an object, an image that reconnects the past to the present.

This body of work is also an extension and further exploration of ‘beneath the waterline’ a project carried out in 2017, where Morrison responded to the absence of female voices in Tasmanian maritime history, through exploring the collection of the Bass Strait Maritime Centre.

Lisa Garland's 'Roger' can be viewed on the auction website or as part of her wider collection of art here:

Lisa Garland - online exhibition - Despard Gallery (despard-gallery.com.au)