Artists Researched

I have looked at the artwork of Simryn Gill, which I was privileged to view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia. Gill’s work entitled ‘Maria’s Garden’ documents a living environment whereby she takes literal nature prints, recording each plant in her neighbor's garden. This resonates specifically with my work as it ‘fossilises’ the actual imprint of the vegetation and holds it in perpetuity after the garden was demolished to make way for development.

I have also found inspiration in the work of Margaret and Christine Wertheim whereby they respond to the anthropogenic crisis by creating crochet pieces that simulate living reefs producing large-scale coralline landscapes offering a beautiful yet ugly response to the calamities devastating marine life by climate change and plastic trash littering our oceans.
The Wertheim sisters use their crocheted art pieces they explore and expose the facts of the already-in-place inevitability of some extinctions, the crocheted coral reefs created from plastic detritus are incredibly beautiful works but at the same time emphasize the ugliness of how we are choking and destroying the natural beauty of the coral reefs.