2012 Gosford - town centre chrysalises

There are many abandoned shops and buildings in Gosford CBD. The "Town Centre" shopping centre is especially prominent - but its locked up and empty of people. If you look closely on the outside of the Town Centre's cylindrical tower, you can see numerous chrysalises belonging to native Saunders Case Moths, Metura elongates. 

Kath Fries, Case Moth Chrysalises,
site research photograph, Gosford 19 June 2012 
Kath Fries, Case Moth Chrysalises, 
site research photograph, Gosford 19 June 2012
Kath Fries, Case Moth Chrysalises,
site research photograph, Gosford 19 June 2012
Kath Fries, Case Moth Chrysalises,
site research photograph, Gosford 19 June 2012
Kath Fries, Case Moth Chrysalises,
site research photograph, Gosford 19 June 2012 
Kath Fries, Case Moth Chrysalises,
site research photograph, Gosford 19 June 2012

Arthur Bartholomew, Saunders Case Moth illustration,
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Arthur Bartholomew, Saunders Case Moth illustration,
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Quietly, subtly and subversively nature is reclaiming space and territory. Amongst the apparently uninhabited human structures lifeforms continue to grow, incubate and survive.

Kath Fries, Town Centre dust traces,
site research photograph, Gosford 19 June 2012
Kath Fries, Layered reflections in Town Centre window,
site research photograph, Gosford 19 June 2012


Much that interests me and inspires my practice is that which is often overlooked; common and everyday, or too discrete to notice. But when re-examined and re-interpreted in a different context offer insights and narratives that expand belong their simple exteriors.

Kath Fries, Weeds and buildings, site research photograph,
Gosford 19 June 2012
Kath Fries, Weeds and buildings, site research photograph,
Gosford 19 June 2012
The Gosford Artists Residency is organised by Gosford Regional Gallery and the Imperial Arcade. Artists: Wendy Abel Campbell, Kath Fries, Kylie Rose McLean and Janet Meaney. Visitors are welcome 10am to 3pm Monday to Friday 18-29 June and our resulting work will be exhibited at Gosford Regional Gallery from 21 July to 16 September. www.gosfordregionalgallery.com