Heather Shimmen

This series of work relates to the local mythology of the coastal landscape around Venus Bay, in south eastern Victoria where Heather has a studio. References to once inhabited beachside shacks and to the regional vegetation and local birdlife abound in these works. Shimmen creates a mythological world, where the past very much inhabits the present. Our view is obscured in translation – by language and time. Like looking through the sway of rippled glass, Shimmen’s world of stories is fluid and distilled, like legend or fiction, and populated by creatures and beings that bear testimony of their own existence.