THE URBAN FIELD NATURALISTS’ GUIDE TO LESSER-KNOWN POLLINATORS
The Urban Field Naturalists’ Guide to Lesser-Known Pollinators: Explore ways to tell stories about the natural world
Monday 15th of March – Friday 21st of May, 2021
UTS Library, UTS Central, level 7, 61 Broadway, Ultimo, NSW
We’re delighted to have our work featured as part of The Urban Field Naturalists’ Guide to Lesser-Known Pollinators at UTS Library, NSW.
Pollinator outline, 2020
Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm, 20cm X 20cm. Edition of 20, with 5 artists’ proofs.
Black-throated finch, 2019
One of twenty original postcard collages made especially for the Black-throated Finch Project 2019.
Five views of a creeping Honey possum (Tarisipes rostratus), 2019
A 21cm X 30cm (folded to 10.5cm X 7.5cm in proportion), full-colour zine.
Prattle, scoop, trembling: a flutter of Australian birds, 2017
Artists’ book, printed edition. 53 page, perfect bound artists’ book, with 31 Indigo Digital CMYK leaves and 22 Indigo Digital Black leaves on 160gsm Knight Smooth, bound in 332gsm Buffalo board with red foil title, with hand-cut bird collage insert, 210mm x 175mm. Edition of 100.
Curated by Andrew Burrell and Zoë Sadokierski, Spec Studio, UTS School of Design, the exhibition is on until the 21st of May, 2021.
The exhibition includes works by Adam France, Cecilia Heffer, Chris Caines, Donna Sgro, Egg Picnic (Camila De Gregorio & Christopher Macaluso), Fionn McCabe, Katie Dean, Lucy Adelaide, Ross Gibson, Thom van Dooren, Timo Rissanen, Vanessa Berry, and the two of us, Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison.
This exhibition is an outcome of the Urban Field Naturalist Project (UFN), a collaboration with researchers from the environmental humanities and life sciences. The UFN Project has two main aims. First, to encourage people to engage with the biodiversity around them through community storytelling. Second, to reimagine the naturalist tradition for the 21st Century. Related to this second aim, two of the design research questions posed through the exhibition are:
1. How might we begin to reimagine the cabinet of curiosities without removing specimens from their place of origin? Is it possible to retain the wunder, minus the kammer?
2. How might we visualise and materialise ecological information beyond scientific charts and diagrams, into objects and spaces that can be encountered, experienced, inhabited?
A program of talks and workshops with designers, philosophers, scientists, and writers will run alongside the exhibition.
Design and curation: Andrew Burrell and Zoë Sadokierski, Spec Studio, UTS School of Design
UTS Library
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21st of March, 2021
Our work on display as part of The Urban Field Naturalists’ Guide to Lesser-Known Pollinators, including, Pollinator outline. Curated by Andrew Burrell and Zoë Sadokierski, Spec Studio, UTS School of Design (installation photo courtesy of Spec Studio).
