Categories: General
      Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018
     Title: Art Meets Science
Ecosciences Precinct
Boggo Road, Dutton Park Qld

Exhibition dates: until - 7 September
7:30am - 5pm Mon-Fri, Friday until 12 noon
ArtLab panel: Thursday 6 Sept 5:30-8pm, more info & tickets

The Bloom Collective, and four independent artists present the outcomes of their six month residency as part of the Artist in Residence Science (AIRS) Program with the Science Division of the Department of Environment and Science.
Selected IMAGES

Photograph from The Wrong Kind of Beauty, Bloom Collective 2018. Photo: Greg Harm, Tangible Media




Artform and media: Photographs, performance, video, printed textile, poetry, archival prints on paper, time-lapse video. All artworks are available for sale. Please send requests from the contact page.

The AIRS artists are: Alinta Krauth | Jen Seevinck | Tessie Liddell | Nadine Schmoll | The Bloom Collective: Renata Buziak, Erik Griswold, Vanessa Tomlinson, Jan Baker-Finch, and Vicki Kelleher.

13 other artists who showcase their recent artworks that demonstrate a specific art-science connection join the exhibition: Grania Kelly | Anastasia Tyurina | Anne Harris | Donna Davis | Dragan Martinovic| Janice Edwards | Kierra-Jay Power | Lauren Lopez | Majid Chekroun | Ross Barnard | Svetlana Trefilova | Tamsin Edwards-Frances | Warren Handley.

The Wrong Kind of Beauty is the Bloom Collective’s embodied, experiential response to the fragility of the landscape produced by the gullying process. The harrowing and ongoing drama of the landscape, simultaneously reveals moments of delicate sculptural beauty, explored here through poetry, movement, sound and visual documentation.

The photographs and videos presented are from site at Murphy’s Creek near Toowoomba, generously made accessible by Gerald Handley, the property owner. Printed fabrics and poetry were created as a response to our first visit. All audio visual work included here was made in the gullies in a single day, on the second visit to the site. We invite you to listen, look, experience and rethink these familiar landscapes.

In addition, biochrome images of soil featured on paper, fabrics, and time-lapse videos, were created with soil samples collected from the site, and from the Bowen River catchment. Biochromes present traces of micro-organic and chemical transformations recorded over several weeks on photographic emulsions, and depict the diversity in soil types and show that even highly erodible soils are living.

Before the Bloom Collective met members of the Landscape Sciences, we didn’t know the word gully could be a verb. Gullying is a natural process. The Grand Canyon was created by gullying over millions of years. Human activity, such as land clearing and overgrazing can contribute to gullying, causing rapid land degradation and soil erosion. The latest scientific studies indicate that gullies are a major source of sediment flowing to the Great Barrier Reef (Bartley et al., 2017). The Bloom Collective were introduced to gully research by members of DES, identifying causes, measuring rates of change, tracing the effects on ecosystem, and considering rehabilitation options. The Wrong Kind of Beauty ruminates on all of these concerns.