An exhibition of pencil and watercolour on our relationship with an environment that shapes and is shaped by the way in which we live.
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There is an ongoing redefining of our understanding of conservation, as we learn more of our complex relationship with a natural world we are very much dependent on. A changing relationship wherein value is being increasingly placed upon the health of a habitat as a dynamic system, over the well-being of individual species. The challenge in acknowledging the importance of predators, weeds and pests brings with it the need to place ourselves on a more balanced ground with what we consider wildness. This body of work, taking inspiration from local conservation projects and activism, is a reflection on the idea of a "gathered silence" as the efforts to quieten our own appetites, in hope to allow this tide of indigenous flora and fauna to return.
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