COLORADO SPRINGS, USA

Jo Bertini: Deep in Land

Deep in Land is an exhibition featuring the paintings of renowned Australian artist Jo Bertini, with collaborative music, sound and video imagery of musician and composer Thomas Struder. Deep in Land is inspired by the deserts of the American Southwest. The artworks emanate from Jo Bertini's many decades of research and field work into the unique and fragile beauty of remote desert landscapes and the peoples and cultures that have flourished there. The exhibition explores the extraordinary intrinsic value, interconnectedness and essential nature of desert landscapes through a particulary female perspective, distinct from the established historical archive of desert understanding. 

Jo Bertini is an award winning, internationally lauded Australian artist who will exhbit a series of new works at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery in Spring, 2022. Known internationally for her paintings and drawings of desert landscapes, people and animals, her work has been aquired by private and public collections both nationally and internationally and is on display in many public art galleries, museums and institutions. 

For ten years, Bertini worked as an Expedition Artist on scientific and ecological survey expeditions into the most remote and inaccessible desert regions of Australia. A published art book, 'Fieldwork - Jo Bertini' celebrates her long and intimate engagement with the Australian desert. She also maintains a desert studio in the Southwest United States, near Abiquiu, New Mexico. Jo bertini continues to focus her artistic interests on desert peple and places, painting and working in some of the most remote and inaccessible desert regions of the world.