solastalgia
2022
Works created for exhibition in collaboration with Vivienne Adeney, Mya Cook and Michael Lye
Cavern, Lithograph, 52cm x 39cm, 2023Matter, Settling, Lithograph, 39cm x 28cm, 2023Whirlpool, Lithograph, 36.5 cm x 30.5, 2023Contact, Lithograph, 51.5cm x 35.7cm, 2023Cove, Lithograph, 44cm x 28.5cm, 2023Tidal Waves, Lithograph, 41cm x 32cm, 2023Ravine, Lithograph, 44.5cm x 29cm, 2023Alcove, Lithograph, 33.5cm x 29cm, 2023Breakaway, Lithograph, 51.5cm x 36cm, 2023Exhibition statement
“The former four Elements (Earth, air, water, fire) have mutated into geo-hy-dro-solar-biotech-politics”
- Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova, ‘Post Human Glossary,’ 2018.
This proposed group exhibition will examine the environmental effects of climate destruction and how that has effected society’s technological, cultural and structural systems. Collating our expertise within printmaking, we will adopt a unique perspective, utilising specialised mediums and processes. Each artist will be displaying work that has been produced in response to the previously stated quote, following four unique ideas.
Inherently, printmaking utilises raw materials from the earth that is then transformed into a mode of visualisation. Applying this manner of thinking to the medium of printmaking, the work in this show proposes a deeper conceptual breakdown of the environmental reality. The re-production of print informed artworks dictates the manner in which each artist explore Post-Human concepts and elemental mutations. Such re-usable modes of thinking centres this exhibition around the interconnectedness between human and non-human organisms.
Through the traversing of ‘Deep Time’ and the existential notion of ‘Atomic reality’, this exhibition will investigate our understanding of environmental systems and how they may transform under the stress and anxiety of the foredooming Anthropocene. This epoch, will analyse systems within environmental life and its platooning ramifications on our current human behavioural structures.