rom Botany Bay to Bundanon

Mike Leggett with Jan Hendrix and Jim Wallis

(Video essay)

2011

by Mike Leggett

Video essay on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBZgz-b3ZUk

The Dutch artist Jan Hendrix meets with local naturalist, Jim Wallis. Jim has been studying the fauna and flora of the Bundanon Trust property on the banks of the Shoalhaven River in New South Wales since the mid-1970s. He shares his archive with Jan during this the artist's third residency. Hendrix develops further his ideas using the flora of Bundanon upon which many of his prints and sculptures are based. A resident of Mexico City for the past 35 years, his new work is informed by the botanical specimens collected by Joseph Banks in Botany Bay in 1777, some of which are are still found on the Shoalhaven. (12-minutes)

This research led onto Hendrix’s. large-scale exhibition ‘Paradise Lost (2020) Kew Gardens, London; Madrid, Mexico City