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), situating the book within a spatial field of images, texts, and collective encounter.
Forests Atlas operates as a field guide to the forests of southwest Australia, weaving cartography with painting, photography, and narrative. Moving across waterways, ancient Jarrah, Numbats, black cockatoos, and Karri, the publication assembles a composite portrait of forest ecologies and interdependence.
“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 ecological registers — visual traces that hold attention on forest systems, colour, and continuity.
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