Biography

James Darling - born Melbourne, Victoria, 1946

Lesley Forwood - born Tailem Bend, South Australia, 1950

Selected Mallee Roots Installations from 2000 - current

2022 Living Rocks: A Fragment of the Universe, The Beauty of Early Life. Traces of Early Life, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany

2019 Living Rocks: A Fragment of the Universe, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

2018 Living Rocks: A Fragment of the Universe, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, SA. Australia

2017 Walk Work 6, Private Residence, St Peter’s, SA, Australia

2015 Mindblock, Private Residence, North Adelaide, SA, Australia

2014  Sign of the Times, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, SA, Australia

2013 Heartland, including River to Ocean, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia

2011 Country, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, SA, Australia

2011 Fire & Roots 3, Landmarks Gallery, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia

2010 Wall Work 5 – from Kamojima to Kamojinja, Setouchi International Art Festival, Ogijima, Seto Inland Sea, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

2008 Handle with Care, including Troubled Water – Didicoolum Drain Extension, Biennale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia

2007 Wonderful World, including Everyone Lives Downstream 2, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, SA, Australia

2006 Coalescence, Greenaway Art Gallery / GAG Projects, Adelaide, SA, Australia

2006 Circle 1 – Roots across the World, Paris Summer Festival 2006, La Defense, Paris, France

2005 Triangle 2, The Esplanade, Singapore

2004 Wall Work 4, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2004 Everyone Lives Downstream, Greenaway Art Gallery / GAG Projects, Adelaide, SA, Australia

2004 Thinking Beyond the Square, Wilderness School, Adelaide, SA, Australia

2003 Wall Work 3, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Gymia, NSW, Australia

2003  Wall Work 2, Custody and Consequence, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, Australia

2003 Empathy: Beyond the Horizon, Including Malleefowl nest 12: Spring, Artspace, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2002 Planting Roots in Paris, Australian Embassy, Paris, France

2002 Triangle 1, Centro Culturale Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain

2002 Malleefowl nest 9: Summer, ARCO, Madrid, Spain

2001 Empathy: Beyond the Horizon, including Malleefowl nest 8 : Autumn, Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland

2001 Fire and Roots, Including Malleefowl nest 7: Summer and Fire and Roots 2, Greenaway Art Gallery / GAG Projects, Adelaide, SA, Australia