My work ‘Super Highway, Exposed Fault Line’ has been selected as a finalist in the Lane Cove Art Award.

The work traces an eidetic, meandering route that once appeared accidental but was, in hindsight, pre-determined. What initially felt like a deviation revealed itself as a trajectory; an indirect passage guided by an ever-shifting ‘conceptual north’, a compass paradoxically pointing toward the Wild West Coast of Lutruwita Tasmania.

The painting depicts a landscape overlaid with gilded roadmaps and topographies.

From the first mark on the linen there is destruction: chaotic gilding slashes through terrain, erasing and re-inscribing paths. Layers rupture and repair one another as maps, paths, trails and trials surface, only to be repaved.

The work mirrors a landscape in transition and regeneration, alongside the archetypal traveller undergoing the same. It is a portrait of place merging with a perpetually displaced person... someone who never arrived, never left, and never returned.

The full list of finalists can be found here

Offical Opening: Friday 18 September 6pm-8pm
Exhibition Dates: Wednesday 16 September – Saturday 3 October

Gallery Lane Cove
164 Longueville Road,
Cameraygal Lands
Lane Cove NSW 2066

Opening Hours
Tuesday - Friday 10am - 4.30pm
Saturday 10am - 2:30pm

Lada Dedić
Super Hwy; Exposed Fault Line
Oil, 24kt gold, sterling silver, copper on linen
440 x 440 mm