Contemporary artist Simone Douglas' work incorporates installation, photography, sculpture, video and durational site-specific works. Since the late 1990s Douglas has dedicated her practice to observing and revealing the way light activates the land and the sky. Her work re-examines the sublime, memory and time, and questions the visual tensions between “seeing” and “perceiving.” 
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Predominantly known for her photographic work, Douglas has also dedicated her practice to land art. Continuing her commitment to an engagement with the landscape and ideas about site, her current work One of her current active durational multi-site-specific art works, Ice Boat, enacts a poetic engagement with cultural histories, land and environmental responsibility. Significantly, Ice Boat is conceived as a poetic symbol of reparation and continues Douglas’ commitment to using her practice to encourage engagement with the environment, social history and inter-cultural dialogue. The ice sculpture will be installed directly into the desert regions in Australia. As the ice boat melts, following the arc of the sun, it leaves behind a “trace” of water, a shadow of traveling light. And as the water returns life to the land, it reveals the after burn of native wild flowers. The visual poeticism of a boat emerging from the land and returning to the land, indirectly, it carries a powerful reference to a cyclical movement, a motion always in a state of becoming. 

(Biography: Artist's website)