Anne Edmonds considers light, in and of itself, to be the most mysterious element in nature. In her recent work, she draws on the processes of Optics meaning the appearance or look of light, to explore the effect of light in a pristine landscape. Edmonds travelled to the spectacular expanses of Karijini National Park in the Pilbara of Western Australia, traditional land of the Banyjima people. Their culture stretches across millennia when giant slabs of rock suspended in thundering floodwater carved into the plains creating a wonder-world of magnificent gorges, hidden pools, rushing streams and rugged rocks.

Living on the Light of the Pilbara challenges the familiar nature of light inscribed in western memory and imagination of landscape. Here, cathedrals of rust red rock gorges soar dramatically skyward with white gum trees that cling horizontally to the face as if suspended by an indivisible universe of light.

Light Waves over the Pilbara draws on the inspiration of rolling plains cloaked in sheets of shimmering light waves interacting with a timeless landscape that stretches to the horizon and beyond. Edmonds uses seamless facets of transparent tone to convey the light waves, where forms dissolve and reform with allusions and veiled connections to this timeless land. The transparency of shapes gives a privilege to the viewer of ‘seeing’ inside the cosmic energy of light that has the effect of binding all the other individual features of the landscape together.