Beneath our Feet
This was a major exhibition of work first held at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in Townsville and then shown at the Craft Queensland Gallery in Brisbane.
The work in the exhibition was a response by Mulcahy to the degradation and environmental damage being caused to the north Queensland landscape by large scale mining. Of particular concern was the mine operating close to the fragile and unique Riversleigh Fossil Fields.
The large scale, black fired, Gorge Sentinals (6 of) stand over 2 metres tall and reference the towering and rugged walls of the Riversleigh Gorge. They provide a stark contrast to the delicate and fragile works in the Tread Softly Dominic series which are constructed from paper thin wafers of clay and fibre.
These thin wafers of clay feature impressed images of fossils from Riversleigh and imprints of Mulcahy's baby grandson's foot which only become visible when the works are lit from behind.
