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Fragile Earth: Extinction
Jun 11, 2022
Aug 28, 2022
permanent exhibition
Fragile Earth: Extinction sees artists come together to explore and articulate through their various art practices the complexity of our current ecological crisis.

In 2022 Gippsland Art Gallery introduces 'Fragile Earth', a new series of biennial exhibitions that will each explore different aspects of our changing climate and its effects on life on earth.

The first of this series, 'Extinction', has been thoughtfully curated by Louisa Waters and Melanie Caple, and draws together the work of some 60 artists.

Fragile Earth: Extinction sees artists come together to explore and articulate through their various art practices the complexity of our current ecological crisis.

In response to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, artists from the Gippsland collective CARE (Concerned Artists Resisting Extinction) and invited artists from across Australia use this exhibition to ask: how can we communicate and document the story of rapid loss of species, habitats, and ecosystems? With great sensitivity, the featured artists poetically express the fragile stories of the sixth extinction and work conscientiously to illustrate the relevance of ecology and nature conservation through artistic enquiry.

Exhibiting Artists

Adam BOYD, Barry BROWN, Penny CARRUTHERS, Rosalind CRISP, Michael COOK, Peter CUMMINGS, Lee DARROCH, Jonathan DELAFIELD COOK, Chris DENTON, Di DEPPELER, Sofie DIEU, Judy DORBER, Matt DUNNE, Stephen DUPONT, Lesley DUXBURY, Kasia FABIJANSKA, Juan FORD, Sue FRASER, Linda FREDHEIM, Wendy FUESSEL, Peter GARDINER, Amanda GOODGE, Wendy HABRAKEN-FLACK, Kye HANLEY, Susan HIBBERDINE, William Webster HOARE, Alan HOLLENSEN, Alfie HUDSON, Josephine JAKOBI, Leila JEFFREYS, Glenda JOHNSON, Mavis KERINAIUA, Fiona KERINAIUA, Louiseann KING, Martin KING, Gillian KLINE, Sam LEACH, Nadine LINEHAM, Lionel LINDSAY, Janet LAURENCE, Adelaide MACPHERSON, Otto MACPHERSON, Jarrad MARTYN, Frank MESARIC, Michael McWILLIAMS, Deborah MILLIGAN, Michelle MOLINARI, Andrew MORRISH, Irene PROEBSTING, Fiona REYNOLDS, Lisa ROBERTS, Rachel STEINMANN, Chris STUBBS, Dawn STUBBS, Valmai TODD, Albert TUCKER, Pat WATERS, Kelly WILLIAMS, John WOLSELEY.

Selected Artworks
Lisa Roberts
Bayled up Coupe Bayliss Spur
Year:  
2021-22
Medium:  
Giclee prints archival rag paper.
Size:  
59.4 x 42cm
Courtesy the artist.
© 
The artist.
Alfie HUDSON, Gunnai Kurnai and Monero Peoples
Bogong Moths
Year:  
2020
Medium:  
Linocut on paper.
Size:  
20 x 30.4cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery.
© 
The artist.
Josephine JAKOBI
Bryozoan Network
Year:  
2022
Medium:  
Linen, growth from one month immersion in the Bung Yarnda Estuary, cotton.
Size:  
178 x 124 cm
Courtesy the artist.
© 
The artist.
Frank MESARIC
Ceratothotherium simum cottoni
Year:  
2022
Medium:  
Oil on Canvas
Size:  
300 x 350cm
Courtesy the artist.
© 
The artist.
Jonathan DELAFIELD COOK
Iceberg
Year:  
2022
Medium:  
Drawing on canvas.
Size:  
146 x 292 cm
Courtesy the artist.
© 
The artist.
Lesley Duxbury
If forests disappear
Year:  
2022
Medium:  
Archival inkjet print.
Size:  
80 X 120 cm includes frames (6 framed images each 40 X 40cm)
Courtesy the artist.
© 
The artist.
Lee DARROCH, Yorta Yorta, Mutti Mutti and Boon Wurrung Peoples
LYREBIRD SONGLINES (Possum Skin Cloak)
Year:  
2019
Medium:  
Possum skin cloak, ochre, skins, thread, glue.
Size:  
126 x 90 cm
Courtesy the artist.
© 
The artist. Photograph by the artist.
Rosalind CRISP
Mt. Delusion logging coupe no.7735010025
Year:  
2018
Medium:  
Photograph
Size:  
Variable size
Courtesy the artist and Omeo Dance Inc.
© 
The artist. Photograph by Andrew Morrish.
Michelle MOLINARI
Nature Morte
Year:  
2014
Medium:  
Oil on aluminium.
Size:  
96 x 122cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Purchased with the assistance of the Robert Salzer Foundation, 2015.
© 
Leila JEFFREYS
Nature is not a place to visit. It is Home.
Year:  
2019
Medium:  
Multi-channel video. Continuous loop, 8 minutes 26 seconds.
Size:  
Variable
Courtesy the artist.
© 
The artist.
Valmai TODD
Survival
Year:  
2021
Medium:  
Reduction linocut print on paper (edition of 10).
Size:  
30 x 15cm
Courtesy the artist.
© 
The artist. Photograph by Lesley Duxbury.
Susan FRASER
Too Late
Year:  
2019
Medium:  
Linocut print on paper.
Size:  
76 x 133cm
Courtesy the artist.
© 
The artist. Photograph by Iain Fraser.
Judy DORBER
Understory
Year:  
2021
Medium:  
Multi-layered relief print on paper (unique state).
Size:  
81 x 54cm
Courtesy the artist.
© 
The artist. Photograph by the artist.
Martin KING
Unusual Places to Die
Year:  
2014
Medium:  
Etching, watercolour and pigment on paper.
Size:  
100 x 270cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Donated by the artist through the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program, 2019.
© 
Michael McWILLIAMS
Will This Ever End
Year:  
2022
Medium:  
Synthetic polymer on linen.
Size:  
120 x 100cm
Courtesy Lauraine Diggins Fine Art.
© 
The artist.
Janet LAURENCE
Zylum Flow
Year:  
2022
Medium:  
C-Type Photograph, aluminum.
Size:  
100 x 156cm
Courtesy ARC ONE Gallery.
© 
The artist.
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