Cedra Wood: Land Arts and Riverland Biosphere in Australia

Cedra Wood earned an MFA at the University of New Mexico in painting and drawing, and is a former participant in the Land Arts of the American West program at UNM, as well as the Environment Studio Artist Exchange University of New Mexico / Australia National University. She worked as a personal assistant to Dave Hickey, served as an intern at SITE Santa Fe, and has appeared in numerous local and regional exhibitions.

Bill Gilbert and John Reid conducted the "Environment Studio Artist Exchange University of New Mexico / ANU" during June 2011, a pilot American-Australian field studies exchange program. Four American students travelled to Australia: Blake Gibson, Yoshi Hayashi, Joseph Mougel and Cedra Wood. The first leg of the Land Arts visit took place from Thursday 2 June to Sunday 5 June. The artists headed south from Sydney, through the Royal National Park, down the Illawarra coastal escarpment via Bulli Pass, to Nowra and the Shoalhaven River, Ulladulla, Bawley Point and finally Kioloa, just north of Batemans Bay, NSW to stay at the ANU Field Station.

The second leg of the Land Arts visit took place from Monday 6 June to Monday 13 June. The artists travelled from ANU Kioloa Field Station to Monaroo Bobberrer Gudu Cultural Centre (Jigamy Farm) on the shores of Pambula Lake to join Field Trip 2 of the Eden Project Field Study. The Land Arts group then went to Canberra on Monday 13 June. On Wednesday 14 June the American artists met the ANU artists who were joining them for the up-coming trip to the Riverland Biosphere in South Australia: John Reid, Bryn Jones, Caroline Huf, Liz Coats, Micky Allan, Kevin Miller, Frank Thirion, Felicity Green, Fran Ifould and Marzena Wasikowska. The combined group departed Canberra Friday 17 June arriving Calperum Station, in the Biosphere north of Renmark, on the same day.

• CAE0902: Land arts of the American West
• CAE1043: John Reid: The Fishman Project
• CAE1308: Cedra Wood: The Arctic Circle