lakebed is a body of work arising from multiple art residencies of exploration and experimentation at Lake Mungo National Park in the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area. During 2016, 2017 and 2018, artists Sam Newstead, Barbara Nicholls, Natalie O’Connor, Sharron Ohlsen and Liz O’Reilly travelled thousands of kilometres from their homes to come together in the far south-west of New South Wales, embedding themselves in the ancient landscape of Mungo.
Exhibited together at Concordia Gallery, the resulting paintings, monoprints and installations sit side by side in a series of conversations, responses in situ and works considered over time in the studio, a diversity of expression exists, unified by the artists’ quest to honour narratives of life revealed by the unfurling layers of time at Mungo.