upcoming solo exhibition
Above the Snow Line
Jan 17th-23rd Feb 2025
B—CSC Gallery
Bogong Village, VIC
Above the Snow Line is a photographic investigation of encountering the snow gums in the high plains of the Victorian Alpine Region affected by drought, fires and woodboring beetle infestations. They are the only trees that can grow above the snow line. They provide a habitat for animals and birds and slow the ice melt flow to the Murray-Darling Basin. They thrive in the most severe weather conditions, enduring snow, ice, and extreme winds.
The Bogong Centre for Sound Culture residency allowed Sarah to contribute to Save our Snowgums, www.saveoursnowgum.org, a citizen science project collating observations of Snow-gum dieback across the Australian Alps. The data collected will provide scientists with a greater understanding of the underlying reasons for the susceptibility of snow gums to woodboring longicorn beetle infestations that kill the trees. The beetle larvae essentially ring-bark the tree, leaving visible scars on the trunk and branches, and the tree's canopy gradually declines in health and dies.
Above the Snow Line seeks to highlight the plight of the snow gums and bring awareness to the catastrophic events occurring due to a changing climate and the impacts of drought, bushfires and beetle infestation in this unique Alpine ecosystem. This project invites the viewer to look closely at the fragility of these iconic trees as they have nowhere else to go.
Edition of 5+ 2 AP
Archival Inkjet Prints
100cm x 66.7cm
Above the Snow Line, Triptych 1 and 2 of colour and black and white photographs. Burrinja Cultural Centre, 2023. Installation View Photo by Christian Capurro
Above the Snow Line, 2023, Burrinja Cultural Centre. Installation View of photographs by Sarah Lynch and video installation by Shannon Collis.
Photo by Christian Capurro
Above the Snow Line, 2023 Triptych 1: a series of black and white photographs depicting a mix of snow-covered landscapes and closeups of the snow gums in the Alpine environment. Three Black and White Photographs Framed, Burrinja Cultural Centre. Installation View Photo by Christian Capurro
Above the Snow Line, 2023, Triptych 1 close-up view of the middle black and white photograph of a Snow gum tree, Burrinja Cultural Centre. Photo by Christian Capurro
Above the Snow Line, 2023, Triptych 2. Framed colour photographs consisting of different views of snow-covered snow gums; detailed closeup, mid and broad perspective shots. of Snow Gum Trees, Burrinja Cultural Centre. Installation View Photo by Christian Capurro
Above the Snow Line, Triptych 2, Framed colour photographs. Close-up view of the middle photograph of snow gum leaves. Burrinja Cultural Centre, 2023.
Photo by Christian Capurro