All materials I use have significant meaning. Materiality is the context through which I prompt questions about survival and the real cost of what we collectively consume. 

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Parallel to teaching environmental art for two decades I’ve worked as a bushcook and fieldy, supporting geoscientific expeditions in remote areas. Fieldwork provides opportunities to reflect on extractive economies and to collect earth from geological strata disrupted by human activities. This installation of 120 low-fired ceramic vessels, created from clay and geological waste, were cast directly from peoples’ knees. The installation expresses my interests in deep time, plate tectonics and unsustainable land use practices that contribute to rapid climate change and extinctions. More