The Unconformity: beauty and devastation collide in isolated Tasmanian mining town | Josephine Rowe

With mining declining, a small town’s festival has reinvented itself to celebrate cultural paradox, dramatic landscape and experimental art
The descent into Queenstown, Tasmania, is one of disparate and formidable beauty. As the Lyell highway wends its way through hairpin bends, the surrounding mountainsides shed world heritage forest, shed trees of any kind, becoming the region’s famed lunar dreamscape. The magenta, ochre and smoky-green hues of the denuded hillsides are remarkable