Inland, Clementine Belle McIntosh, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, 31st March – 29th April 2023
Inland is a textile installation which observes the place-based material histories of found, gifted and unwanted cloth. Made across Wiradjuri, Wailwan and Kamilaroi country in Central West NSW and Ngunnawal country in Canberra ACT, the textiles embody local dialogues between artist-ecology-neighbourhood-industry.
McIntosh participates in gift economies (gifting services or goods without the expectation of receiving the same in return) and in environmental collaboration to build relational understandings towards place as both newcomer and local. Inland uses the familiar clothesline structure found in suburban/rural backyards to present dyed, stained, buried and sewn textiles pieces. Accidental, repetitive and environmental mark-making made by artist, stranger and/or the nonhuman, invites audiences to notice and contemplate the textiles entanglements to place and by extension their own.
McIntosh was awarded this opportunity through the Australian National University’s School of Art and Design’s 2022 Graduate Exhibition, where the Gallery selected a recipient under the Emerging Artist Support Scheme.
via – https://goulburnregionalartgallery.com.au/exhibitions/clementine-belle-mcintosh
Installation view of Clementine Belle McIntosh ‘Inland’ featuring Clementine Belle McIntosh, ‘Clothesline’, 2023, eucalyptus leaf dye, eucalyptus bark dye, black tea dye, onion skin dye, nightshade weed stains, dam mud, rust, iron water, gifted secondhand fabric from Cooee Retirement Village Gilgandra, gifted corset fabric scraps, gifted old painters drop sheet, thread, found farming metal, eyelets, found cardboard target with 22 long rifle gunshot holes, papier-mâché Chemist Warehouse sale flyers, stainless steel pegs and ebay purchased retractable clotheslines. Collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography 
Installation view of exhibition ‘Soft Power’ and Gallery 2 Exhibition ‘Inland’ at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery 2023 featuring Julia Gutman, ‘Once More with Feeling’, 2022, Courtesy the artist and Sullivan + Strumpf; Raquel Ormella, ‘Blockade in the studio, Stop Adani’, 2022, Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery; and Raquel Ormella, ‘Stripped empty’, 2018, Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery; and Clementine Belle McIntosh, ‘Clothesline’, 2023, Collection of the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography. 
Buried and dyed textile cloth drying on farm fence in Gilgandra NSW, 2023
Clementine Belle McIntosh 