Craig Walsh: Embedded

Overview

Craig Walsh is an immersive artist, one who responds to his surroundings and the people within them. He is the voice of a community, communicating the perspectives of those often without the ability to do so.

With the help of Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art Australia alongside mining company Rio Tinto, Walsh has been able to create a body of work to raise awareness of the work of the National Heritage Place with the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation in the Murujuga National Park, and the priceless rock art that is protected as a result.

Walsh has worked with the traditional custodians of the land, the Circle of Elders, as well as park rangers to create video recaps of the Elders, which are projected onto self-made images of notable landscapes.

This also allowed him to create Standing Stone Site (2012), a collection of 96 standing stones, a platform to showcase both the shifting light on the stones as well as the largest collection of standing stones in Australia.

Curators Judith Blackall and Robert Leonard pay tribute to Craig Walsh throughout the exhibition, once again illustrating the influence of this national treasure.