Disused explosives storage, West Arm of Horseshoe Harbour looking south, Mawson Station, East Antarctica, 7th January 20182018
Artist statement: I was privileged to spend the 2017–18 Austral summer at Mawson Station in East Antarctica, as the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow.
My encounter with the highest, driest, coldest, windiest and most remote continent on the planet, left me awe-struck – by the strength and ingenuity demanded of Antarctica’s human and non-human inhabitants in order to survive the ravages of ice and wind in this vast wilderness.
Underlying the beauty, is the terrifying volume of water held within the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Containing enough liquid to add 53 metres to global sea levels, this 4800 metre thick ice sheet has remained mostly stable over the last eight million years prior to the Anthropocene.
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