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WORK IN DEVELOPMENT FOR ‘WORLDS AROUND US’ EXHIBITION

Worlds Around Us | Tweed Regional Gallery [June 27 - 9 November, 2025]

“...we need to relearn multiple forms of curiosity. Curiosity is an attunement to multi-species entanglement, complexity and the shimmer all around us.” ‘Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet’, Tsing et al.

The works in this show is an archive of recent interactions between the artist and the more-than human worlds she encounters. Employing a range of image-making techniques (photography, chromatography and cymatics) these works explore interspecies dialogue, material presence and how a practice of curiosity cultivates empathy and care.

***Humpback whale migrating south,*** 2024 [35mm photographic negative processed with ocean water collected from site]

*Chromatogram of Empty Cicada Shell*, 2024
NB: Chromatography is a photographic process invented by Mikhail Tsvet in 1900, and used widely by scientists and agronomists to understand the chemical makeup of soil. I’ve been testing the ability of the process to facilitate the visual expression of a wide range of natural materials (trees, seaweed, dead insects etc.). Only a very small amount of material is needed (less than a teaspoon) and the outcome cannot be controlled.

*Butterfly Graveyard (from Scenes Around My Apartment Window)*, 2024

INSTALL IMAGERY FROM RECENT SHOWS

**Install shot of works at *Conversation with Bees -* solo-show at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery (November 2024 - February, 2025).**
[Image credit: Jennifer Leahy]

**Install shot of *Beyond the Veil [diptych]* from my series ‘Material Resonance’ in the 2024 National Photography Prize at MAMA.**
[image credit: Jeremy Weihrauch]

RECENT PRESS

ABC Art Works ‘Old Artforms, New Tricks’ [Film Photography] | Series 3, Episode 3, 2023 [3.14 min extract]

The extract from this video profile helps explain my methodology when creating site-responsive work.

Art Collector | Artist Profile by Jo Higgins [published January 2024]