Kerrie Poliness
BEACH DRAWING
22 March, 11am–6pm (collaborative drawing between 11am – 2pm)
Erskine River Estuary, Lorne Beach
Kerrie Poliness is known for her painting and drawing works that revisit the ideas and practices of conceptual art. She uses everyday materials to produce large scale asymmetrical geometric artworks which respond to the place in which they are made. Patterns are drawn onto various surfaces via instruction manuals, which enable other people to participate in the process of making her artworks. These artworks highlight interconnective processes and patterns of nature and people, and often involve workshops and collective activity.
For the Biennale’s Sculpture+ program, the artist will host a large participatory ‘tidal drawing’, made directly onto the beach using simple tools like sticks for drawing lines and gardening trowels. This collaborative artwork will develop according to a set of guidelines given by the artist, encouraging interaction and connectivity between participants. The drawings will change and eventually vanish with the incoming tide. The format of the drawings and the timing of these events will be informed by local knowledge through on-site research of the tides in relation to local tidal charts.
Kerrie Poliness is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery.
This project was made possible by the Australian Government Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia, and Regional Arts Victoria.
Image: Kerrie Poliness, Landscape paintings with the beach at Lorne 2025. Courtesy the artist.
