Brad Rimmer: Nature Boy fashion shaped by the resilience of

shaped by the resilience of his displaced community confronting the encroaching cattle industry

drawing inspiration from art history

Larissa Behrendt

Through the reinterpretation in found needlework of historical paintings

Brad Rimmer: Nature Boy fashion shaped by the resilience ofNature Boy is a sequel to Australian photographer Brad Rimmers monograph Silence (2009). Probing at the essence of rural Australia and the emotional impact of the natural landscape upon individual psyches. The artist this time adds stories to the compendium. The raw, yet poetic narratives conjure the late adolescent years of a lad wrestling with whether to stay or leave his remote country homeland for the lure of the city and so much more. A coming of