Flatland: A Continuing Romance, is a continuation of themes explored in my original Flatland exhibition held in Perth in 2006. It is a response to the way we connect or don't connect to the landscape around us. It is about the inhabited spaces that are psychologically empty and anonymous.
Joanna Lamb, Perth 2007

These days landscape is nothing more than a kind of wallpaper. Safely cocooned within the comforts of our glimmering modernity, it’s just there, making no real demands on the senses – flat textureless, bland and unobtrusive. Drained of its urgency within those sleepily nostalgic nationalist debates and yearnings, the fact is it has become what it always was – an illusion, a construction in retrospect, a passive backdrop to whatever set of ideologies are daubed over it. Little wonder that after the degradations inherent in such processes, Joanna Lamb comes to it and finds it, somehow empty.