In this exhibition, Saturated, three artists explore a constellation of themes linked by water, employing artist's books and screen printing as a shared medium. In addition to the powerful physical changes mediated by water - entire landscapes melting, destructive flooding, vast bodies of water contained in the ocean depths - water invokes dynamic themes.
By screen printing an image of the Antarctic ice sheets in carbon dust onto ice, and photographing distortion of the image as the ice melts, Beth Crase engages with themes of impermanence and futility.
Cathy Keys' works, drawn from archival imagery, critiques the environmental impact of Queensland's domestic timber building tradition, and underscores the devastation that repeated, widespread, flooding has wrought on urban landscapes.
Maree Purnell harnesses the unstable alchemy of an iron pigment, with its properties of continuous oxidation in the humid atmosphere, to explore themes of transformation of land and water.