Tara Murray
Australia’s outback has been brought to Deer Park in a new exhibition launched last week.
Self-taught artist Xiang Li made a 5000 kilometre solo road trip to outback Australia last year and used that as inspiration for her first solo exhibition.
The trip was anything but smooth – Li stayed in a vineyard that burned down not long ago and was locked outside her car in a sandstorm.
She said the trip was about female empowerment and building self-confidence.
“Life is just like a road trip, and it is never about the destination,” she said. “It is about the people we met and the experience we had.”
On the trip, she collected the red dust from her car for which the exhibition is named.
The exhibition, which is being run in conjunction with the Brimbank council, will be at the Hunt Club Community Arts Centre in Deer Park until March 11.
Details: creativebrimbank.com.au/red-dust-exhibition-by-xiang-
