ARIS PRABAWA: IN THE SERVICE OF NATURE

26 March – 8 May 2010 

A founding member of the Indonesian artist-run collective Taring Padi, Aris Prabawa has been living on the North Coast of Australia for nearly a decade. Formed in 1998, and taking residence in an abandoned school at the fall of the Suharto Regime, the work of Taring Padi, is renowned for its raw and uncompromising social activisim in Yogyakarta, Central Java.

Since moving to Northern New South Wales, Aris Prabawa has continued with some of the environmental and political themes in his earlier work. In the Service of Nature is a new body of painting and drawings which takes nature and the rapacious abuse of the environment by people, governments and corporations as a central theme, expressed through a symbolic visual language.