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Mandy Martin

Mandy Martin – A Persistent Vision

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20 December 2022
Mandy Martin, Unknown Industrial Prisoner, 1977 (photograph by Andrew Curtis)
Before environmental psychologist Glenn Albrecht gave us the language of solastalgia, Mandy Martin painted Depaysement (2003). Martin chose a different word that also explores a sort of longing for a home that was no longer there, a safe place that predated the environmental destruction that rendered home unrecognisable. ... (read more)

Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve by Libby Robin, Chris Dickman, and Mandy Martin

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May 2011, no. 331
Kim Mahood reviews 'Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve' edited by Libby Robin, Chris Dickman, and Mandy Martin

In recent months a significant part of Australia has been subject to deluge and flood. As the continent recharges its waterways and water tables, we are like an ant nest into which a curious child has thrust a hose – rushing about rescuing and shoring up, patching and rebuilding, behaving as if this upheaval is an aberration, and as if building towns and cities on flood plains is sensible.

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