Christopher Rimmer 'Soldier Settlement, South Australia' printmaking Clarice Beckett IMAGES

Clarice Beckett IMAGES

so still despite their precarity

(c) Frank Hodgkinson / Copyright Agency

An impression of this work is at the National Gallery of Victoria

Christopher Rimmer 'Soldier Settlement, South Australia' printmaking Clarice Beckett IMAGESIn his series, Remnant, photographer Christopher Rimmer descends into the Australian outback. Set against the backdrop of covid, the resulting photographs are portraits of isolation, the Australian sublime and failed ambition abandoned service stations, unfinished railways lines and rusted debris. Soldier Settlement, South Australia is a portrait of a crumbled policy. It speaks to an event in Australian history when soldiers returning from World War I