September 18, 2010

plant hybrids

it's been a busy week with writing - i had to conjure up a 3000 word sample chapter of my thesis - and my head is full of literary conversions of my creative material output.

"The expansive territory of nature serves as both a rich field of inspiration from which to harvest ideas and a prism through which to examine the swirling pool of our collective understanding."

on the good news front, i just got curated into a group show for the end of november. it's at a commercial gallery - dianne tanzer - as part of their progressive program of introducing emerging artists into the mix of their represented stable. curated by drew pettifer and gillian brown the theme of the show fits pretty well perfectly in line with my work - experiments in plant hybridisation - the title taken from an 1865 book by gregor mendel.

this exhibition affords me the opportunity to revisit a previous work - prewood_postwood - that was exhibited at c3 contemporary art space in 2009. 

prewood_postwood 2009

rather than just re-represent this particular piece i'm going to develop and refine it. so the plan is to make it more intricate, with more component elements, so that the integration of biology and technology is more intertwined and appears more co-productive.
 

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