Biodiversity: Brunswick Street Gallery October 21 – November 3
This exhibition explores the artist’s interest in biodiversity and conservation. Biodiversity encompasses the variety of life forms present on planet earth. It includes the macroscopic (plants, insects and animals) and the microscopic (e.g. bacteria and viruses), and the ecosystems that support them. Major threats to biodiversity in Australia include habitat loss, fire and introduced weeds. The artist became fascinated with the paradox provided by our innate and spiritual need to be connected to nature, juxtaposed to our ability to wantonly destroy whole habitats. We often see nature as something separate from ourselves, denying not only our place in it, but also our obligation to the system as a whole. Urbanization may contribute to this sense of isolation, and the cost of this disconnection may be habitat destruction and species extinction.
