Isolation
We are used to isolation in the Territory, but this is a little different.
Plans for 2020 are distant dreams.
Roads to remote communities are blocked and everything is strange.
Some people are isolated out bush and can’t get to town. Others are stuck in town, dreaming of country and family. Waiting.
These paintings are works done during strange times. I haven’t been able to visit my favourite places and trees. A trip out bush seems like a lifetime ago. These are memories of simpler times.

But we are doing ok! Good things are happening too. Families in remote communities are spending more time together, more time hunting and looking after country. Dialysis on country helps to make this possible. Our nurses are bunkered down out bush, banking their holidays for later. No working from home for us!
Grateful for work, grateful for understanding staff and families. Grateful for the resilience and patience of people from remote communities. Grateful to be living here, the safest place in the country. And grateful for a deadline, an exhibition that takes my brain away from pandemic plans and postponed projects to the rhythm of spinifex, of fleeting clouds and light on ranges.
Social distancing? No problem. I’ve hardly noticed a difference. I’m hardly the life of the party at the best of times. No need to make excuses now.

Paul Johnstone Gallery is proud to present Sarah Browns exhibition: Isolation.
The exhibition runs from 6 - 27 June
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