ARTS MONDAY – Sustainability & Art – Guest Presenter Jesse Stokes
Today’s program is being presented by Jesse Stokes, standing in for your usual Arts Monday host Tanya Dombkins.
Our guests are:
Prof Jill Bennett – founding director of the National Institute for Experimental Arts [NIEA] and previously founded the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics at UNSW, where she also holds the position of Associate Dean Research, College of Fine Arts.
Aymeric Maudous – Organiser of the Eco Xpo, sustainable art enthusiast.
Tracey Deep – Currently part of the Material World Exhibit at ANCA. She has been working as a floral sculptor for the last 15years. Evolving over the last 10 years her art practice spawned from floral art & has developed into the realm of environmental art, sculpture & installations. Her passion is working with used, industrial, organic, discarded, pre loved & discontinued materials, to create sustainable art. She revels in the natural world. Her works reflect a poetic play of light & shade, earth textures & sensual forms, inspired by the essence of nature.
- How can art be sustainable? If so, why is that important?
- How can art promote sustainability?
- Is Art uniquely positioned to promote sustainability? Why?
- Does incorporating sustainable practices into art add a unique quality to the work?
- How does the life/previous use of ‘found objects’ or recycled material impact upon the message and perceptions of a work?
Multimedia
Marina Debris
Aquarium Gyre
Marina Debris
White Trash
Tracey Deep
Tracey Deep