This Rollershutter Art piece has been created as part of the Mparntwe Street Art Festival 2024 in conjunction with Red Hot Arts and proudly sponsored by Activate Alice.
"I create work which is infused with my feelings about the natural
world. When I discovered that the home for this piece would be an organisation
focusing on birth and parenthood, I began to think about all of the ways these
ideas relate to the things I am most in awe of in nature. A seed carries the
embryo of a plant, and if sown, the plant that is held within that seed may
grow and if the right conditions permit, the plant may flower. If given the
opportunity, that flower will produce many seeds which each contain an embryo,
which if given the opportunity, will grow, and so on.
Similarly, caterpillars are born carrying the cells that will
eventually become the wings and legs and eyes that will become their body
following their rebirth as a butterfly or moth. Within nature is an abundance
of opportunities for birth and rebirth.
If I think about my connection to nature I begin to think about
the parts of the person I am today that were carried within previous versions
of myself. This makes me feel excited to be carrying the parts of future-me
which are patiently waiting within now-me, and in that way I am my own mother,
and nature is my mother, and these flowers are my mother, and yours too. This
piece is an encapsulation of the abundance of joy within the cycle of life and
death, which of course only exists in contrast to the presence of pain, fear
and difficulty. An infinite existence in a single tiny seed."
The Artist
I am an artist living and working in North-West Victoria who makes paintings inspired by the landscape, featuring iconic native Australian birdlife and flora. I graduated from the University of South Australia in 2015 with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting) and went on to pursue graduate studies in Art History before returning to my art practice. My work is informed by my masters research into 19th century female landscape painters and their connection to colonisation in Australia. My work aims to explore my connection to the landscape as an uninvited settler in a sensitive and emotional, but also fun and playful way.
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