Think-Lab-Tank-Incubator, 2021

Movers & Shapers 2 Women & Land | Sculpture

Broadhurst Gallery

Hazelhurst Arts Centre

19 November – 5 December 2021

Think-Lab-Tank-Incubator, 2021, ultraviolet light, perspex box, steel shelf, laboratory glassware, plastic, silicone, gum nuts, fishing lure, twigs, acrylic and fluorescent paint, shells, polyurethane foam, fabric, crinoline tubing, seed pods, feathers, palm inflorescence, netting, fishing line, cotton, beads, embroidery thread, pumice, leaves, 44 x 65 x 26cm

Collecting while bushwalking is my way of connecting with nature, treasuring the small parts that together make the whole. Reflecting on these components back in the studio I began to ponder the future of nature; the possibility that by necessity or by design, hybrid organic/synthetic forms might emerge. A process of playfully combining industrial, maritime and millinery materials with my collection of found natural objects ensued.

Organic and synthetic matter merges and interacts with ultraviolet light within the ‘Think-Lab-Tank-Incubator’. Biomorphic specimens in the making; evolving, transmogrifying, transforming. A speculative ecology in miniature; in waiting.