SIMON NORMAND
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BIOGRAPHY
Simon Normand is a sculptor, printmaker, painter, author and environmentalist. For over 25 years he has been creating art for the public domain, exhibiting as well as working with elders in Sth-East Arnhem Land, recording oral histories. Travelling extensively throughout the Gulf country, he created numerous maps detailing an indigenous perspective of the land as a permanent record for the people that have always lived there.
In 2010 his major exhibition Wata (wind) opened at the Adelaide Festival Centre and then toured for the next 18 months.
CONNECTION TO BALDESSIN STUDIO
In 2016 I began editioning 13 etchings at Baldessin Studio where I found the space and environment perfect for the creation of this latest body of work. This has been made into 10 artists books. The work is ongoing and in collaboration with artists and elders from Arnhem Land, and a national touring exhibition is being developed. - Simon Normand
ABOUT THE WORK
Ludwig Leichhardt - Before the Clearing
His latest project Before the Clearing, is a series of collection boxes of artefacts, stories and etchings documenting Ludwig Leichhardt’s epic 5000km journey from Port Essington in 1845. Before the Clearing opened at Parliament House as part of the 2017 Darwin Festival.
