I'm really excited to have some new paintings in 2°, opening tomorrow night at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, and curated by Alexander Boynes. You can read about the exhibition here, but to sum up it presents nine artists' responses to climate change.
The work that I've made for this exhibition investigates my contrasting experiences of extreme climates during the past year - winter in Finland during a residency at Arteles and summer in far north Queensland - and extreme and unusual weather events over that time period that profoundly affected me and changed the way I and my friends interacted with the environment. Although my personal observations of extreme and unusual weather cannot necessarily be taken as evidence of climate change, we know that climate change has influenced the frequency and severity of extreme weather events and that it is very troubling for both tropical and snowy places. Through combining imagery in an incongruous and seemingly haphazard way, these works explore both the necessity of and the problems with seeing climate change within the context of one's own environments and experiences.
Here's a sneak peek at one of the paintings, and I hope to see you at CCAS tomorrow night!
Vortex / Tree Mountain, 2016, acrylic on cardboard, 40cm x 50cm