
My practice explores drawing as a way of thinking through multispecies relationships during our current period of biodiversity decline and mass extinctions. I appropriate colonial traditions of scientific illustration whereby species were rendered with taxonomic precision and positioned as independent objects removed from their environmental contexts. I apply empirical techniques of intricate, detailed mark-making to contemporary understandings of multispecies entanglements and ecological fragility, literally and conceptually drawing species together in webs of interconnection. I work with digital biodiversity data captured by citizen scientists on platforms such as iNaturalist, using photographs of “species sightings” as reference material. “Brown Antechinus and Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo” documents species recorded at Knapsack Reserve, Glenbrook Blue Mountains.
For 35 years the Kedumba Drawing Award has been one of the pre-eminent awards for drawing in Australia. The addition of the $20,000 prize money will ensure that the Award continues to grow and build on its success for many years to come.

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