Andre van der Kerkhoff captures a quasi-musicality and a rhythm inhabit these latest works, a near- repetitive refrain, somewhat reminiscent of some “outsider art.” But van der Kerkhoff is no outsider. His is a reconstruction of an Australian fabric emanating from a melody within, heard by a stranger in a strange land.
He is a stranger no longer. “It would be rather strange,” he states, “to live in one of Earth’s oldest landscapes and not be interested in it and its in-explainable power and magic…………..’