For the last two years, she has been working on the property with her dad, the renowned sculptor Stephen King, learning the ropes of managing the stock and the land.

"I've also working quietly away at my art whenever I have a moment," she says.

"I'm very lucky to share a pretty great print studio with my mum, Julia King. Allowing me to continue with my preferred medium of printmaking. I'm based here in Walcha, living in the old cottage with my partner, Jarrod and the dogs just down the hill from Mum and Dad."

The young artist's main disciplines include linocutting (especially reduction multiplate linocuts), carved wooden sculpture and charcoal drawings. More recently, her work has had a focus on markmaking, colour theory and experimentation - bending away from traditional multi-edition prints in favour of unique or limited editions.

The effects of watching the farm changing dramatically from day to day or month to month, year to year has bled into her subject says King and a new farmers insight to the ground and the weather's unpredictable nature is visible in her latest work.

"Since moving to the country permanently, I have started to view the landscape in a new way," she said.

"Watching it change through the seasons, but more so being astounded by the dramatic changes with this drought we've all been battling through.

"It has definitely influenced my work to be more experimental in my print process, subject matter and use of colour."

King says her work is an exploration into the worlds around her, using multiple disciplines to help manifest each idea or thought, and that she aims to address her time so far through the warped glass and fickle nature of memory.

Since graduating from National Arts School in 2011 King has curated exhibitions, taken part in numerous group exhibitions and completed a number of public mural commissions. On Friday, November 29 King will open her first solo exhibition 'In the Dry' at the Walcha Gallery of Art.

"My new body of work includes lots of small to medium-sized, one-off colourful, reduction linocut prints and a few wooden chainsaw-carved sculptures," she said.

"This series is an exploration/study of the marks and scars that have been exposed in these dry conditions; the changing colours of our big sky and the faraway blue hills; a homage to the beauty made from everyday jobs like feeding sheep, moving stock or checking dams."

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