Wreck

The epic drawing and erasure performance Wreck is the most ambitious project of Lucienne Rickard’s 23-year career. Rickard has a long relationship with Shearwaters, a group of bird species under threat. In recent years she has been photographing the dead bodies washed up on the shores of Tasmania. Wreck can be understood as a memorial to the endangered Shearwaters. Rickard lovingly and meticulously draws Shearwaters and then responding to the horror of their current situation, erases the drawings.