An ongoing theme in the sculptures of environmental artist Shona Wilson is the disruption of the genetic composition of flora, as the carnage of inorganic detritus plays havoc with every living composition on the planet.
In this exhibition, Wilson re-combines the DNA structure and the visual make-up of common plants and trees as they slowly encode plastics into their internal networking system, after thousands of years of evolution. The end results are beautiful hybrid plants photo-synthesising and regenerating through newly formed organic combinations of plastic, wood and leaf structures.
King Street Gallery on William
Until December 22, 2012
Sydney
Exhibit H – (6 750AD), found at 38’65”N/19’43”E, 2012,
processed found plastic and natural material, 40 x 20 x 20cm
Courtesy the artist and King Street Gallery on William