Artful Evolution
Solo exhibition January – February, 2015
Focus Gallery of Arts Underground, Whitehorse, Canada.
This immersive exhibition guided viewers through 480 million years of coevolution between Yukon plants and insects. It featured seven large-scale works and an interactive, crowd-sourced installation.
The works reference illustration techniques of Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) and other scientific illustrators of 17th–19th century Europe and China. These historical motifs provide a subtle commentary on the ways that decontextualized colonial and scientific attitudes continue to pervade representations of the non-human world.
Angustifolium gallii
100 x 70 cm, indelible india ink and watercolour on Fabriano 50% cotton rag watercolour paper, framed. Private collection, Canada.
Vicia glaucopsyche
100 x 70 cm, indelible india ink and watercolour on Fabriano 50% cotton rag watercolour paper, framed. Private collection, Canada.
Lupinus glaucopsyche
100 x 70 cm, indelible india ink and watercolour on Fabriano 50% cotton rag watercolour paper, framed. Private collection, Australia.