Max & Audrey - Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize - 2022
‘The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize has called for established and emerging artists to turn their gaze to the natural world. Named after the South Australian Museum’s first curator, Frederick George Waterhouse, this biennial prize recognises the long-running interplay between scientific research and the creative arts, from the illustrators and sculptors who help to describe and depict specimens, to contemporary artists who invite us to think about our environment and our impact on the natural world.’
Max & Audrey from the series: Earthly Delights & The Spaces In Between
Emerging Artists’ Prize
These biomorphic forms are imaginings for new modes of being. The human and the non-human. From one side of a binary way of being to the other; these are the spaces in-between. They are an attempt at becoming with our non-human companions; an attempt to disrupt the anthropocentric disposition to separate and dominate the other. They are imaginings for botanical and technological entanglement. These forms are full of seeds and codes, if we listen, for evolutionary worlding, unworlding and reworlding. It is hoped that the works connect to the posthuman idea that nature-human is one, that the tiniest seeds contain all the information we need.
Textile sculpture: Wood, cotton thread, polystyrene, wire, feather, glue, velvet, vintage textiles.