Grant Hobson
Cyan—tyringa (detail) 2010
digital print on photo silkscreen with fluorescent light
150 x 200 x 50 cm
© Courtesy the artist
Cyan—tyringa (detail) 2010
digital print on photo silkscreen with fluorescent light
150 x 200 x 50 cm
© Courtesy the artist
Photographer Grant Hobson explores issues relating to Australian identity and culture. These works depict the west coast of South Australia, particularly the Eyre Peninsula near Sceale Bay, and continue Hobson’s ongoing twenty-five-year project documenting the culture and places of this precious and remote environment.
This pristine marine environment was the site of a controversial motorised jet ski ‘tow-in’ style of surfing competition. Hobson’s new Basil Sellers Art Prize work investigates the controversial decision to hold this event on the Eyre Peninsula and its effect on the local environment, the surf industry, the act of surfing and the broader surf culture in Australia.