Selected Works
From End to End
(Sculpture by the Sea 2022)
The Installation From End to End is produced using mycelium and agricultural waste. It has been grown into forms of everyday consumer plastic waste. The work is site specific, and is exhibited on a rock platform. These elements, being made from mycelium, are biodegradable.
Producing a biodegradable sculpture in this material is a way to conceptualise the natural cycles to which our representations belong. Mycelium as a living organism is an integral part of this cycle. It accelerates decomposition to make way for new life. It reminds us that we need to look past human concerns in order to recognise our interdependence with other forms of life on Earth.
Through this imagery, the work seeks to explore a sense of disconnection we have in modern consumer culture, with perceiving this cycle as it relates to some of our objects. In the arena of art we expect permanence. In the consumer world, our interactions with our objects can seem fleeting. The ubiquitous plastic object is perceived as of little value, yet it is a material that is accumulating in the environment, and will outlive us by many generations.
In our image and message saturated world our attention is often directed away from a genuine relationship to our materials and objects. This leads to disconnection with the natural world from which they originate. We are in need of re-evaluating this framework if we hope to mitigate some of the negative consequences that we are now facing.
Sydney Blue Gum High Forest (2019)
This work emerged through a process of visiting, photographing, drawing and painting remnant patches of the Sydney Blue Gum High Forest Community.
One of eight distinct forest types within the Sydney bio-basin to be nationally listed as critically endangered. This forest is now restricted to less than one per cent of its former range, is severely fragmented, and considered unlikely to survive for future generations.
Ten views have been chosen that represent this unique forest in context with the anthropogenic pressures it faces.
They are fragments that collectively tell a story of the urban edges that intersect this ancient space.
