Webb’s Landscapes

Webb’s Landscape #2, 295 x 550mm framed

Excerpt from Threads For Lost Mothers, or how she gained a Masters of Economics by Hanna Scott

Rose Meyer‘s collages of miniature landscapes in muted colours recombine landscape paintings from art auction catalogues. These collages index the process of landscape being painted, printed, photographed, marketed, printed again, cut up, assembled, photographed again, printed again. Meyer’s images highlight the radical instability of real-estate-as-property. Her hybrid landscape works chart how the land (and then its image) is cut up and commodified, sold and resold again and again. Meyer’s works bundle connection to whenua with a deconstruction of the landscape tradition, bound up as it is in colonisation, ownership and enclosure. They are pointedly collectivised history paintings, amalgams that can outlast reductive individual title and extractive land practices. (full PDF of Catalogue here)