Event details
Photographer Anna Kiparis explores the unofficial dirt trails that form when walkers consistently choose a more direct, or convenient, route instead of following a planned path, known as “desire lines”.
Walking through nature is an essential ritual for Kiparis, finding comfort and calm in the repetitive movement and taking notice of the details in the local landscape around Gardiners Creek. Documenting these desire lines and surrounding scenery with her camera allows Kiparis to take moments of pause, while contemplating human impact on natural landscapes.
This exhibition invites reflection on our relationship with nature and the marks we leave behind, acknowledging the universal impulse to wander, deviate and forge our own path.
Image credit: Anna Kiparis, detail from ‘Surfacing’, 2025, pigment ink on cotton rag, 50.8 x 76.2 cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Accessibility at this space
- Accessible car parking
- Accessible drop-off area
- Automatic doors
- Accessible toilets
- Ramps
- Clear signage
- Lifts
- Quiet areas
- Wide passageways.
