Artist Statement

Through an innate connection to the land built on a lifetime of living with and recreating within the bush, Will Neuhaus’s work posits an evolution of the Land Art Movement into a contemporary land collaborative practice, where the land is allowed creative agency to tell its own stories. Neuhaus analyses land categorization as an act of containment within the landscape. Through the use of foraged materials and watershed collaboration, their work attempts a split from traditional Western visualizations of the land as a space of conquest, to a place where the land is seen as a collaborative force work attempts a split from traditional Western visualizations of the land as a space of conquest, to a place where the land is seen as a collaborative force.

Artist Biography

Will Neuhaus, is an artist from Cammeraygal Country in so-called Australia. Their upbringing within both rural and urban contexts is the primary driver of their current art practice. Growing up alongside the bush on Ngarigo Country instilled in them an understanding of our human dialogues between the land and ourselves. their work is focused on exploring these dialogues using aesthetics that are closely related to the British land art of the late 60s and early 70s.