Grounded: An Experiment in Movement with Ro Clark

Using her wheelchair as an extension of the body, Ro Clark explores movement as a way of making marks across the ground. She asks: “After becoming paraplegic, how has my relationship with the ground changed, and how can I explore that relationship through painting?”

Developed during The Path, a creative development program facilitated by Dr Kellie O’Dempsey and delivered by The Refinery, this experiment forms part of the development of a new large-scale work spanning painting, film, performance and installation.

Grounded investigates how painting as performance, and the marks left behind, can reveal the constant negotiation of living with disability.

Photos by Jamie Davidson