Artist statement: My work responds to the fragility and power of the natural environment, and as a researcher of complex ecologies, I produce alchemical work driven by themes of elegy and activism. After working as an artist for 50 years, I am continually humbled and inspired by the energy of this sacred place, and seek to make work that fuses the natural beauty of the world with a sense of communal grief and search for connection.

I travelled again through the old-growth forests of Tasmania on my way to Antarctica for my Antarctic Arts Fellowship at Casey Station. This work echoes the fragility of these delicate eco-systems under duress. Combining the haunting memory of blue sky through verdant canopies of the centuries-old Styx Valley in Tasmania, and the opaque, blue-white frost of Antarctica, 'Last Glance, Blue Echo' offers a sense of connection with and, mourning of, our vanishing life world.

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