In Situ, Clementine Belle McIntosh and Leilani Knight, Gilgandra Art Gallery at the Cooee Heritage Centre, 4th March – 16th April 2023.
In Situ is an exhibition made-with the community, culture and environment of Gilgandra NSW – the waterhole meeting place of the Wiradjuri, Wailwan and Kamilaroi peoples. Emerging artists Clementine Belle McIntosh and Leilani Knight collaborate to produce a body of work representing the palimpsest of Aboriginal knowledge systems, local industries and material cycles forming their hometown. Repurposed objects such as wool packs, street signs, old painters drop sheets and mechanical parts are used as mark-making devices to transcribe the artist’s lived rural experiences in metaphors and stories of country.
We thank Gilgandra Shire Council for their financial support in the making of this body of work.
Outdoor installation: dry pigments, walnut oil, local plant dyes, iron water, thread and secondhand quilting fabric from Cooee Village on Paint ‘n’ Plus old painters drop sheet stuffed with eucalyptus bark and leaves. 
Indoor installation. 
Grid, Pool and Stormy Arvo, Clementine Belle McIntosh 2023, oil, iron bark dye, oil pastel, thread and rabbit skin glue on nylon wool pack, found steel frame and fencing wire. 
Bridge, Clementine McIntosh, 2023, secondhand quilting fabrics from Cooee Village, Iron Bark dye, iron water and thread on Paint ‘n’ Plus old painters drop sheet. 
(left to right) Leilani Knight: Honey Ants, 2023, water based house paint on reclaimed street sign, Walkabout, 2023, water based house paint on reclaimed street sign and New Work, No Lines Marked, 2023, water based house paint on reclaimed street sign, Clementine Belle McIntosh: Wool Pack in Sheep Paddock, 2020, oil on nylon wool pack, raw wool fleece and plant stand. 
Modified outdoor hanging 6th April 2023.
Clementine Belle McIntosh 