Lucy Shorter

Lucy grew up on a sheep & cropping place near Burren Junction, NSW. She now resides in Kununurra, where her work takes her all over the East Kimberley. The vast and various landscapes that cover this region (from the north Kimberley coast to the Tanami desert and several places between) provide her with constant sources of creative inspiration.

Lucy’s current artistic practise reflects her candid observation of the Kimberley landscape: it’s magnificent… and there’s heaps of rubbish! Juxtaposing nature with the unnatural, ancient with modern and scenic with kitsch, challenges the viewer to rethink traditional ideals of beauty. Placement of the squashed Emu can evokes an immediate sense of familiarity to anyone who resides in the Kimberley: you can’t go far without seeing one! After a while, you get used to them, begin to expect them in your line of vision and some, like Lucy, might even start to appreciate them as little works of art, in and of themselves.