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The Field Ornithology Collection
2022 – 2023, Mixed Media Sculpture & Installation, Various Sizes
In consideration of my master thesis question, “How can the re-presentation of animal materialities in art and artefacts re-form public opinion about the sixth mass extinction?”, I developed a speculative museum of the future along with the physical artefacts that will in due time populate its halls. These hand-crafted “animalARTefacts” explicitly incorporate dead animal bodies to draw attention to narratives around the loss of biodiversity. This hypothetical museum makes the objects in its collection available for loan to actual museums in the present, to create site-responsive artistic interventions that re-contextualise existing narratives around human/animal relationships in cultural spaces. Ringve Musikkmuseum has been the first institution to engage with this project.
2019-2022, Hyper Collage giclée print on Ilford Cotton Rag, Edition of 10 + 2AP, 1000 x 1000 mm
This citizen science project is a study of the species and ecology within a 1km radius around my home in Johannesburg. These hyper collages reflect not only on the species I found, but also speculates over species that would have been present if not for human intervention. The project serves a dual purpose, as the photographs and data collected were shared to iNaturalist, where scientists can use it to map biodiversity in aid of the Half-Earth project and other conservation studies.
2020, Hyper Collage giclée print on Ilford Textured Silk, Edition of 10 + 2AP, 840 x 840 mm
“The thesis put forward by the biologist is that we are living organisms in constant exchange with the environment and hence our existence as an individual is a mere illusion.”
Jean Pierre Jacquot
The Hole in your Soul is a series of abstracted self-portraits in which I utilise photo-manipulation to morph the human body with natural textures and organic forms to reveal our human-nature connection.
2018, Short Film, 00:01:57
This short film captures the emotion and chaos of inner struggle, and the inevitable transformation that follows in its wake.
Created in collaboration with video artist and music producer Matthew Harvey
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