Paula McLoughlin is a Melbourne based artist and printmaker. In 1991 she graduated from the Edinburgh College of Art with a postgraduate degree in printmaking. She spent several years living in Scotland, a time described as a ‘formative experience in consolidating her practice.’* McLoughlin’s more recent work explores the separation that humans create with our environment, our relationship with our environment and connections to place.
Time and Tide is an earlier work but it also appears to consider our relationship with our environment through an exploration of the passage of time. A series of three images that resemble depictions of land from a birds-eye view, show the landscape morph and change through time as the tide contours the landscape. In its imitation of a map it considers the way we record and interpret landscapes as a way of relating to, and reckoning with, the world around us.
* From Melbourne gallery No Vacancy’s profile on McLoughlin: https://www.no-vacancy.com.au/paula-mcloughlin
