The week before Christmas last year, as the bushfires were continuing to burn through bush and farmland, powerlines were burnt out causing the whole of Omeo to lose its power supply.Ausnet Services put generators in place to provide the critical power source to the district. As the New Year arrived, the fires intensified and on Saturday, January 4, as the sky turned an eerie red in Omeo, people...
To many people the bushfires of last summer may seem to be from another time and place with the bizarre way this year has played out.Not so for Nungurner artist, Dore Stockhausen, who has devoted her year to documenting the impact of the fires on some of the region’s forests, the result of which can be seen in her exhibition, The Edge of My Vision – Fire, at oneofftwo, in Nungurner this coming...
