About the Art:
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."
About 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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