Honouring Harvey - Kallymenia cribrosa

Formed recycled copper hot water service and cast polyester resin.

44 x 39 x 23 cm

2016

In 2012 Umbrella Studio Arts Townsville, sent me as their first artist to a 3 months residency in Aberystwyth, Wales. Whilst there, I spent considerable time ankle deep in layers of seaweed collecting and photographing it. Since returning I have been studying Professor William H. Harvey ‘Phycologica Australica’ on Australian marine algae that he collected whilst he visited Australia in 1853 to 1856.  This particular seaweed is a Rhodophyta or red algae. Copper is also a red metal and changes colour which replicates the green, brown and red colours of seaweed. I have utilised a recycled hot water service as copper is prolific in north Queensland and the hot water alludes to our northern heat and rising temperatures.  The base is cast in polyester resin, a plastic which hints at my continuing dismay of plastic detritus of plastic in our ocean environment, like that which I found amongst the seaweed.