The poetic paintings of Jo Bertini are an ode to the wild. Having inhabited diverse desert landscapes for decades, Bertini contemplates and celebrates the personal and anthropological profundity of remote wilderness. The sacredness of sites that cannot be tamed, conquered or colonised, and the ways in which these wild places speak to the sublimated and primal parts of the human psyche. For Bertini, her inexplicable affiliation with the world's most isolated desert landscapes connects with an elusive yet fundamental human longing, seeding creative consciousnesses.
