HIDDEN

 

Mentor/curator David Cross is putting together a show that will activate the nooks and crannies of the grand Civic Hall in Ballarat. Six artists including myself have developed an inflatable artwork that will occupy a different space within the building. My work is a ‘Porticulture Pack’ an inflatable and transportable architectural space that fits into a backpack. It is a device for growing food in future days where nomadic permaculture becomes a solution to changed climatic growing conditions. It honours the skills of horticulture, seed saving and soil building.

HIDDEN will be a 3 day event open to the public in mid July.

An initiative of The City of Ballarat under Anindita Banerjee

UNDERSTORY

 

Understory extends the attentive practice of nature journaling into a immersive sculptural environment, that leaps off the page and you are invited to step inside and explore. 

The work grows from a practice of spending time in natural places, observing what is seen, heard and felt. It is a way of paying attention, building curiosity, and developing a deeper relationship with place and the things that live there. Through close observation, the small and easily missed forms on the forest floor are honoured as beautiful and important.

The forms within the exhibition are magnified to five times their real size, allowing you to encounter the forest floor as it might be perceived by a bird or small animal. It encourages looking closely and discovering the interconnected world way down low and to discover the stories within the Understory.

HYPHEN GALLERY  /  WODONGA

UNTIL 14th JUNE

 

Image: Mossy Rock Photography