added collage or textiles to her works. For Bot the glyphs are a system of marks, a language, that have evolved from many rough sketches of the landscape. Typically, Bot’s work features strong silhouettes, a natural colour palette, course visual texture and complex, rhythmic patterns and glyphs. These glyphs are symbols of natural elements. She credits Aboriginal artist Rover Thomas with teaching her about black in the Australian landscape. After a fire, the black land bursts into bloom, so black is the colour not of death but of regeneration. In 2013 Bot began to sculpt glyphs in steel and Treaty Glyphs (2013) and Glyphs – Between Worlds (201) and were shown in two separate exhibitions. She makes them from plain carbon steel. After cutting and smoothing the sculptures, she puts them into the ground to rust to a ruby-brown colour. They are then bolted to a backing, standing out slightly to cast their shadows. Ethos During the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) she was interviewed at Strathnairn Arts Association in Canberra, ACT, Australia:“What would you most like people to know about your Arts practice? "Art matters – art is a voice that reaches out to others so that they can see the world again as if for the first time. Like a child who sees the moon and is so overcome that they need to share the experience with others just in case we hadn’t ever seen the moon. In surreal times – like this COVID-19 pandemic – we all perhaps need to hear the voice of the child/artist for inspiration, for hope, for sanity and survival.“ References 1954 births Living people 20th-century Australian women artists 20th-century Australian artists 21st-century Australian women artists 21st-century Australian artists Artists from the Australian Capital Territory Australian women painters Australian women sculptors Australian National University alumni Pseudonymous artists