Breathe - Amanda Walker
This multi layered work seeks to connect us to what is lost and what is to become lost, Tasmania’s endangered giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera forests. The enduring kelp forest near our home undulates, ripples and moves with the currents and surging swell. The light shifts and filters down through the canopy, colours exquisite, these kelp forests abundant with life offer our own survival. Our every second breath. The work responds directly to my own movements within the landscape, to history, duration and geological time, and to my own precious boxes of gathered fragments, linen threads and time.
Bio: Amanda completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts, Deans Roll of Excellence with Honours at the University of Tasmania 2012. Her most recent work was a collaboration with scientists (Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies Tasmania), directly interpreting their areas of research of Tasmania’s giant kelp forests through drawings, interactive installation and 3D works. Understanding that there are limits to our knowledge, and as habitat and species are lost forever, monitoring, measuring, preservation and protection are critical to survival. Amanda continues to seek to understand the connections that emerge between the vulnerability of the landscape and our connectedness with nature.
This multi layered work seeks to connect us to what is lost and what is to become lost, Tasmania’s endangered giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera forests. The enduring kelp forest near our home undulates, ripples and moves with the currents and surging swell. The light shifts and filters down through the canopy, colours exquisite, these kelp forests abundant with life offer our own survival. Our every second breath. The work responds directly to my own movements within the landscape, to history, duration and geological time, and to my own precious boxes of gathered fragments, linen threads and time.
Bio: Amanda completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts, Deans Roll of Excellence with Honours at the University of Tasmania 2012. Her most recent work was a collaboration with scientists (Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies Tasmania), directly interpreting their areas of research of Tasmania’s giant kelp forests through drawings, interactive installation and 3D works. Understanding that there are limits to our knowledge, and as habitat and species are lost forever, monitoring, measuring, preservation and protection are critical to survival. Amanda continues to seek to understand the connections that emerge between the vulnerability of the landscape and our connectedness with nature.
This multi layered work seeks to connect us to what is lost and what is to become lost, Tasmania’s endangered giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera forests. The enduring kelp forest near our home undulates, ripples and moves with the currents and surging swell. The light shifts and filters down through the canopy, colours exquisite, these kelp forests abundant with life offer our own survival. Our every second breath. The work responds directly to my own movements within the landscape, to history, duration and geological time, and to my own precious boxes of gathered fragments, linen threads and time.
Bio: Amanda completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts, Deans Roll of Excellence with Honours at the University of Tasmania 2012. Her most recent work was a collaboration with scientists (Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies Tasmania), directly interpreting their areas of research of Tasmania’s giant kelp forests through drawings, interactive installation and 3D works. Understanding that there are limits to our knowledge, and as habitat and species are lost forever, monitoring, measuring, preservation and protection are critical to survival. Amanda continues to seek to understand the connections that emerge between the vulnerability of the landscape and our connectedness with nature.