outLAND; Shifting Pigments

outLAND is a body of work by two artists and long time friends who visually traverse their artistic journeys via geographic movements over a period of almost thirty years. Through various modes of drawing and painting, both Jude Roberts and Tarn McLean draw inspiration from topographical elements and the pigments and waters predominantly located around the Western Queensland regions of Australia.

outLAND is evocative of location, where both artists lived beyond the urban terrain on adjoining remote properties. The title serves as a disruption to perceptions of the inland, to the physical and constructed boundaries, and to placing the artists themselves into the land and waterscapes.

In the Circular Boundary Series, the artist has used pre-digital cartographer’s map-making equipment from the Lands Department as drawing tools, to reconsider the way boundaries have been surveyed, drawn and mapped. The mediums used are mostly found sediments , while the turquoise rock pigment is from India.

Alexandra Lawson Curator, Jude Taggart Roberts and Tarn McLean, 2021