Heartfelt gratitude and deepest respect to the artists Alec Von Bargen and Luca Bray whose friendship is everlasting.

The artist Lynne Roberts-Goodwin dedicates this series ‘TIMES LIKE THESE...swarm’, 2012, to the Mayan workers of Akumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico, who possess an inherent humility and endearing tranquillity of spirit and pride within place, culture and self....in TIMES LIKE THESE.



Lynne Roberts-Goodwin © 2012

MEXICO

LYNNE ROBERTS GOODWIN



Lynne Roberts-Goodwin is a Sydney-based artist whose powerful work addresses the essence of our existence as individuals and as a civilization. Her photographs, video and gallery/site specific installations result from her need to quell her obsessions that include attention to the trade routes, faces, traces and scars on the surfaces of the world. Critical, too, is her desire to physically encounter the ‘real’, which has taken her to Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Jordan, India, Kuwait, Himalayas, South-East Asia, Nth America, Mexico, Japan and Australia. Yet, the resulting images cannot be considered a travelogue or suited to photo-journalism; instead, Roberts-Goodwin speaks of human nature through the presence and absence of details she has found in the body, domestic interiors and landscapes. She creates images taken directly from what she experiences without manipulation resulting in installations far removed from a conventional view. In her thirty-year plus career she has made timeless, passionate visual statements related to geo-political issues and at times, perceived inconsequential occurrences and perceptions we face without sentimentality. She offers a view that these presences, interventions, intrusions - whether contrived, derived from cultural coalescences or seemingly natural, - are temporary, yet continually resonate.



Within this artists’ long-standing career and work, the photographed landscape, animal, and/or human body continues to appear in a paradoxical whole yet fragment: pure from