Outback Odyssey
Nine artists, 20,000 kilometres and a really big country
It probably seems strange to go looking for artists in regional Australia. People think that it is a place for drovers and dogs, not the avant garde. But that would be deeply underestimating the unpredictability of the outback. The animals are odd, the towns are filled with wild characters and the vegetation is positively surreal. Fat boabs, spiky blackboys, bushrangers in black metal helmets, the platypus! This is a place where animals bounce on their tails. Only an artist or a madman could hope to make sense of it...read more.