A thin line casts a long shadow (ongoing)

The longest environmental barrier in the world is Australia's 5614km Dingo Barrier Fence; a colonial artefact with an enduring ecological impact. This ongoing work traces the fence’s indiscriminate path across the continent, from Barunggam Country in Queensland's Western Downs to Wirangu Country on the far west coast of South Australia. It explores our extractive relationship with the earth, and the ongoing legacies of colonialism that are evidenced in the Australian landscape. Photographs and archival research are accompanied by chromatograms, made from samples of soil gathered at particular points alongside the fence’s length. This technique combines soil samples with silver nitrate, creating a photographic record of the physical and biological composition of the earth – the soil acts as an active collaborator in the work. In a country where landscape photography has historically been used as a tool of colonisation, here, the Earth images itself.