Exhibition Launch Event: Thursday 2 May 2024, 5.30pm - 7.30pm

This new work functions to form visual representations characteristic of Anthromes on the east coast of Australia. These natural ecosystems accommodate significant flora and fauna that can go unseen unless viewed closely. Coastal biome aims to celebrate natural environments in urban areas, while reminding us of our impact on often unseen ecosystems existing around us.

Drawing upon the still life genre, The Importance of Unassuming Things utilises the humble, versatile, and mimetic qualities of discarded materials to replicate new, used, and disused, small life-size objects found in everyday life. This visual response reflects Susan’s expanding practice into the material, symbolic and metaphoric capacities of rubbish to explore ideas and impacts of consumption and waste.

Earthly Threads explores the idea of reciprocity in the natural world, investigating the notion that our relationships with self parallel our relationships with the environment. Across a suite of textile works Baker reproduces patterns in nature through weaving, painting, sewing and photographic processes – organic shapes and lines combining to synthesise the scientific, topographic, mystical and erotic.

Since 2020 Lyndall Phelps has been investigating 19th- century Australian botany and ornithology, particularly the role played by women. Re-present focuses on two women who played an active role in producing the rich illustrations in early ornithological publications. Phelps’ installation includes textiles, sculpture and works on paper, and highlights local bird species that are classified as vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered.

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