Art Adrift is the work of artists Cara Ratajczak, Sandy McKendrick and Emma Washer and the peoplee of the remote community of the Cocos Keeling Islands. Fewer than 1,000 people make their home on the two atolls and 27 coral islands that form Australia’s northernmost territory in the Indian Ocean. Emma Washer is one of them, and the woman who turned a local timber barge into a gallery and art centre. The three artists combined weaving, carving, binding, printing and natural dyeing to help local residents create a fleet of sculpted vessels. So you see that Art Adrift has a double meaning, because the artworks could be imagined drifting on a phantasmagoric sea, and they were made from materials that drifted ashore from tide to tide. That’s how it was done, they said: collecting, constructing and creating.
For years, Emma Washer would visit the timber barge that had been pulled ashore and left high and dry in the jungle, wondering what to make of it. Being passionate about the arts and loving the rustic look, her thoughts soon turned to converting the barge into a gallery and community art space.
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