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| The Shipwreck 2011 |
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| The Laboratory 2011 |
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| Secret Garden 2011 |
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| The Flowerless Kingdom 2011 |
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The exhibition, 'Strangers
in Strange Lands' was held at the Crows Nest Regional Art Gallery in Queensland in May 2011 and comprised of a series of sculptural works that explored
the act of collection, simultaneously referencing kitsch souvenirs and scientific specimens.
The terrarium-like landscapes mimic my collection of childhood snow-domes from holiday locations. These 'snow-domes' represent the experience of
travel. However, rather than being representations
of actual locations, these landscapes are responses to my own imaginary
journeys through the pages of books such as Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth", Ernst Haeckel's "Artforms in Nature" and
Homer's "The Odyssey". Each of these books marry the ideas of exploration,
science and reality with the extraordinary, fictitious and mythological.
