Botanically Porcelain
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Botanically Porcelain - The Third Installment
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin February - March 2023 Two main installations become three for this, the homecoming leg of this touring exhibition. A new multi-media installation 'Seed' joins the toured works to create an immersive gallery experience embracing a narrative of re-growth, survival, hope and resilience. In all three venues the reverence of the formal gallery setting intentionally separates and isolates these forms and images from the garden that inspired them, symbolising human disengagement with nature and a hope for a re-embracing of wonderment in the natural wealth that surrounds us. |
Garden of Alchemy
Tactile Arts Gallery Space, 19 Gonacher Street, Fannie Bay, Darwin.
30th April -16th May 2021
The Garden of Alchemy is Dawn Beasley’s third solo exhibition at Tactile Arts and celebrates the culmination of a six-month Artist in Residency in the Tactile studios.
This body of work continues to explore Dawn’s preoccupation with the wonders of the botanical world and specifically the danger of viewing the world as a resource bank of assets rather than as the life-support system that is crucial to our own survival.
This exhibition honours the tenacity of life. It celebrates survival against the odds and the fact that this incredible planet will continue to be a place of awe-inspiring beauty, and that it could continue to sustain us… if only we recognised where true wealth lay.
Dawn Beasley would like to acknowledge the collaboration with Fiona Pow for her contribution to the main installation with her poem, written specifically for this work, entitled “Alchemy’.
This body of work continues to explore Dawn’s preoccupation with the wonders of the botanical world and specifically the danger of viewing the world as a resource bank of assets rather than as the life-support system that is crucial to our own survival.
This exhibition honours the tenacity of life. It celebrates survival against the odds and the fact that this incredible planet will continue to be a place of awe-inspiring beauty, and that it could continue to sustain us… if only we recognised where true wealth lay.
Dawn Beasley would like to acknowledge the collaboration with Fiona Pow for her contribution to the main installation with her poem, written specifically for this work, entitled “Alchemy’.
Symbiosis
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"Symbiosis (from Greek συμβίωσις "living together", from σύν "together" and βίωσις "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic." |
7 Skins (Until envious time has fled)
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