pamela lofts

visual artist
visiting ghee
In South West Australia there are forests which have been continue to be logged for wood chip export. In the old growth forests are massive Jarrah and Tingle trees. In 2001, at an Internaional Artists workshop in this area, I made a work called OLumber Region using recycled off-cuts of Jarrah to make small houses reminiscent of children's building blocks. I placed them in eight massive tingle tree stumps left from timber cutting, creating a surreal and microcosmic landscape for the Ovillages. I asked the other artists in the project to choose a house and put it on their head. I took photographs.

A year later, on the other side of the continent in Queensland, fabulous beaches have attracted tourists and development. Hotels and restaurants crowd along the fragile shore. For OLittorial Village I made and installed more houses on long stilts in the littoral zone (the area between high tide and low tide) The changing levels of the tide and the growing Ovillage each day of production brought a playful yet topical focus to particular environmental concerns in the Noosa area. i asked people who visited the work to choose a house and put it on their head.
headroom lumber region
head room
BIOGRAPHY

Pamela Lofts is a visual artist living in Alice Springs, in the Central Australian desert. She attained her Bachelor of Arts Degree from Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University in 1989. She has exhibited nationally and is presented in collections of State and Regional galleries. She has participated in Residencies in Australia and in 2001 she was the recipient of a grant from the Australia Council, for an overseas residency in Europe.

From 1980 to 1986 she collaborated with Aboriginal storytellers to research, design and produce animated films and a series of children's books. From 1992 to 1997 she co-produced 'Yarrtji Six Women's Stories from the great Sandy Desert', a major publication of Aboriginal women's oral histories.

She established Watch this Space a contemporary art space in Alice Springs in 1994 and was the coordinator from then till 1998. She is currently Curatorial Director.

Her sculpture/installation practice is informed by personal experience creating a position from which to consider layering of cultural, political , environmental and historiacal issues specific to living and working in Central Australia. Her body of work to date seeks to trace a trajectory through memory, space + place.


PAMELA LOFTS
PO BOX 3942
ALICE SPRINGS NT 0871
AUSTRALIA
tel/fax + 61 8 89528625
mobile 041 7810958
email: pamlofts@ozemail.com.au
littorial village
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