Brown Antechinus and Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo

by Eva Nolan
Submitted: August 8, 2024

Artist Statement

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.

Entry Details

Year Completed: 2024
Size / Dimensions cm: 20cm x 20cm
Materials / Mediums: graphite pencil on paper, acrylic round

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