What place does art have in the environment and what role does the environment play in art?
A panel of four distinguished arts professionals will discuss these questions at the opening of Shona Wilson’s latest exhibition ‘PLASTISCENIC’ at Mossgreen Gallery on Saturday 23 November, 2-4pm.
The panel includes:
Guy Abrahams, former director of Christine Abrahams Gallery and now director of his new initiative: Art + Environment, engaging the arts community to adopt sustainable business practices.
Tamsin O’Neill, the editor of Green Magazine, promoting sustainable design and architecture.
Linda Williams, Associate Professor for Art, Environment & Cultural Studies at RMIT and a widely published art critic and curator.
Shona Wilson, Australian contemporary artist and environmentalist.
Merging the boundaries between the artificial and the natural, Shona Wilson new series incorporates found plastic with organic and plant based material to create exceptionally delicate assemblages and sculptures.
Her artwork responds and reflects upon the cross-pollination between nature, humans and culture, referencing in particular the plastics’ invasion into the natural world.
“The natural found materials I use are like a set of keys to my artistic vision. Their inherent qualities and underlying relationships reveal themselves through the repetitive nature of my art making process. I am a collector, re-arranger, builder and transformer. I am attracted to the small, the overlooked or by-passed – bringing awareness and rebirth to things which usually decay or go unseen.” – Shona Wilson, 2009
Mossgreen Gallery
Saturday 23 November, 2013, 2pm
Melbourne
Image: Shona Wilson, Specimen 1&2 (20 100AD) – found @ 60′ N/120′E – Lepidoptera Plasticae, 2013, mixed found and processed natural and plastic media under glass dome, 37 x 22 x 22cm
