Christopher Rimmer 'Soldier Settlement, South Australia' printmaking It speaks to Thake’s remarkable

It speaks to Thake’s remarkable wit

An impression of this work is at the National Gallery of Victoria

Sciberras carves out the land’s texture

we can understand these doves as religious

so still despite their precarity

Christopher Rimmer 'Soldier Settlement, South Australia' printmaking It speaks to Thake’s remarkableIn his series, Remnant, photographer Christopher Rimmer descends into the Australian outback. Set against the backdrop of covid, the resulting photographs are portraits of isolation, the Australian sublime and failed ambition abandoned service stations, unfinished railways lines and rusted debris. Soldier Settlement, South Australia is a portrait of a crumbled policy. It speaks to an event in Australian history when soldiers returning from World War I