Shale by Julie Gough - Lost Rocks (13) Naturbegriff a continuation of an oeuvre

a continuation of an oeuvre that is an expression of the remarkable beauty of the unremarkable

It's the joy of witnessing life itself

from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert

Dancers welcome the Sun in a circle of trees

Is chocolate really an aphrodisiac

Shale by Julie Gough - Lost Rocks (13) Naturbegriff a continuation of an oeuvreShale compresses and covers, yet can erupt and crack and split and reveal what it has held firm, and shows that everything is interconnected, cause and effect. In this sense shale is Tasmania. Layer upon layer. A dark confusion. Julie Gough (AUS) is an artist, freelance curator and writer. Her research and art practice often involves uncovering and re presenting often conflicting and subsumed histories, many referring to her own and her family's