Balancing Acts - Lynne Roberts-Goodwin exhibition

A photographic and sculptural work by artist Lynne Roberts-Goodwin, researched and developed through a residency at Bundanon, engaging in meteorological and sensorial studies of atmospheric envelopment, focused on the Shoalhaven's unique topography. Drawing on multiple levels of vertical space from ground to atmosphere, the artist documented extreme geographic and upper atmospheric planetary storms of exceptional force at a time of increasing climactic devastation. Through observation, imaging, and sculptural interpretation of the aesthetics of atmospheres, the work speculates on the instability between figure/object and ground, and the ambiguous relationships linking material surface and visual illusion, to produce object-based works and aligned photographic imagery in an era of dramatic change. Roberts-Goodwin has engaged and collaborated with meteorological institutions and specialists to produce objects and imagery which seek to reveal tensions between knowing one's location and being lost to a distance from a celestial and terrestrial perspective. Lynne Roberts-Goodwin engages with the politics of contested sites. Working primarily within photographic mediums, over the last forty years, the artist has undertaken projects within remote terrains and photographed landscapes all over the world, documenting how ecological systems, borders and cultural traces are reshaping our planet. Through photographic projects of contested territories and environmental change (Dead Sea), endangered species (India), deforestation (Mexico), and salt mining extractions (Turkey and Western Australia), Roberts-Goodwin's images are at times sublime and terrifying.