Gus Armstrong is a cross-disciplinary artist who lives and works on Wiradjuri Country in Kandos NSW. His practice comments upon the legacy of western farming practice in the Australian bush as a means of grappling with his own relationship to land.
Using his body as a foil, Armstrong employs video, photography and sound to register the conflicting pressures between the vulnerable and dependent human subject and the harsh and fragile landscape, reflecting on the effects of environmental mismanagement and our changing climate in a gesture that suggests the fate of both is radically intertwined.
Positioning himself in the landscape and at the nexus of 'tension', Armstrong works not by posing fact but more by raising questions and instigating dialogue to challenge the cultural practices that regulate human engagement with their landscape.
Armstrong is currently the NSW Artist In Residence w/ Dr. Greg Pritchard (2022); exhibited in Wollongong Yours & Owls Music Festival: Micro Cinema (2022); and exhibited in WAYOUT Vanitas: The Bitter Crust as part of the No Show exhibition, Carriageworks, curated by Aarna Hanley (2021).
