Beneath a karri giant, gouache, 297 x 420, 2022.
Deep-rooted, gouache, 297 x 420, 2022.
‘The newly found, the spider, the teaser’, gouache, 297 x 420, 2022.
Alice Anna Ford contributed a major series of paintings to Forests Atlas, developed with editor Daniel Jan Martin and published by WA Forest Alliance.
Following publication, the project was activated through an exhibition at Moores Building, Walyalup (May 2023), contextualising the book within a spatial field of images, texts, and community conversation.
Forests Atlas operates as a field guide to the forests of southwest Australia, weaving maps with painting, photography, and story from Dr Noel Nannup. Moving across waterways, ancient Jarrah, Numbats, black cockatoos, and Karri, the publication is a combination of art, community and ecology.
“With the trees, we find our ancestors. With the trees, we connect to the past, bring knowledge forward, and walk into the future.”
— Noel Nannup
Within this context, Ford’s paintings function as a connection to colour, scale and the creatures of the forests of South West Australia.
The publication is available via WA Forest Alliance.
Noel Nannup, May 2023, Moores Gallery, photograph by Duncan Wright.
2023/04/09 Forests Atlas
CATALOGUE : Archived
LOCATION : Walyalup, Whadjuk Boodja, Western Australia
WITH : Edited by Daniel Jan Martin with Noel Nannup, Nansen Robb, Clancy Martin, Mariela Espino Zuppa, in collaboration with And/And and WA Forest Alliance.
BOOK LAUNCH AND EXHIBITION: Moores Building Walyalup
this project is dedicated to our child selves