Mycelium encased in a symbolic seed, the possibility for transformation and new beginnings. This living, breathing artwork contains mycelium, the network of threads that normally weave beneath the soil, nourishing plant life and producing mushrooms. Here, encased in plastic, it will continue to grow eventually decomposing the plastic itself, returning it as nourishment to the soil.
Below is the story of how our project has developed ...
Below is the story of how our project has developed ...
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About Entanglement:
Entanglement consists of three visual artists and eco-activists, Dinah Taprell, Jane Lush and Belinda Piggott who share a commitment to collaborative, social and environmental art making. All have worked individually and collaboratively including as members of art and environmental activist group, The Dirt Witches. They share commitment and concern for the environment, and believe art contributes to consciousness raising and change.
Dinah has investigated the interaction of the built environment and natural landscapes professionally as an architect and environmental science educator, and creatively as printmaker, painter and installation artist. More recently she trained as a horticulturist. She has a deep love of soil – both for its complexity and capacity to sustain all living things.
Her solo exhibition Moon (2013) was about slow change over millennia, more recently Earth (2017) depicts violent transformation of sudden shifts. She graduated with MFA from COFA in 2012.
Jane is a long-time bush regenerator recently completing Horticulture CERT III from Ryde Tafe to further her plant, bush and soil knowledge. She has performed as a Dirt Witch in site-specific performance artwork by Janet Laurence including Spells for Weather, Bundanon, Eucalyptusdom, Powerhouse Museum and Requiem, Paddington. She was Gallery Director of Stacks Projects from 2017-20 and exhibited in many exhibitions including Revisiting the Corpse; A Year in Drawing (STACKS Projects) 2018.
Belinda works in sculpture and installation. With initial training in ceramics, she consciously works with materials that reflect the subject being explored. Solo exhibitions include Constructed Forest, Laneway Art Space, ‘Stilled’ Woollahra Gallery, and ‘All that Twinkles’ Linden New Art. Collaborative shows and projects include Composing Earth and Sky, Intersecta, Conversations, Sea Worriers and Message in a Bottle. Her work has been selected in art prizes including Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize, Deakin, Gosford, Silicious, Georges River, Little Things and North Sydney Art Prizes.
Entanglement consists of three visual artists and eco-activists, Dinah Taprell, Jane Lush and Belinda Piggott who share a commitment to collaborative, social and environmental art making. All have worked individually and collaboratively including as members of art and environmental activist group, The Dirt Witches. They share commitment and concern for the environment, and believe art contributes to consciousness raising and change.
Dinah has investigated the interaction of the built environment and natural landscapes professionally as an architect and environmental science educator, and creatively as printmaker, painter and installation artist. More recently she trained as a horticulturist. She has a deep love of soil – both for its complexity and capacity to sustain all living things.
Her solo exhibition Moon (2013) was about slow change over millennia, more recently Earth (2017) depicts violent transformation of sudden shifts. She graduated with MFA from COFA in 2012.
Jane is a long-time bush regenerator recently completing Horticulture CERT III from Ryde Tafe to further her plant, bush and soil knowledge. She has performed as a Dirt Witch in site-specific performance artwork by Janet Laurence including Spells for Weather, Bundanon, Eucalyptusdom, Powerhouse Museum and Requiem, Paddington. She was Gallery Director of Stacks Projects from 2017-20 and exhibited in many exhibitions including Revisiting the Corpse; A Year in Drawing (STACKS Projects) 2018.
Belinda works in sculpture and installation. With initial training in ceramics, she consciously works with materials that reflect the subject being explored. Solo exhibitions include Constructed Forest, Laneway Art Space, ‘Stilled’ Woollahra Gallery, and ‘All that Twinkles’ Linden New Art. Collaborative shows and projects include Composing Earth and Sky, Intersecta, Conversations, Sea Worriers and Message in a Bottle. Her work has been selected in art prizes including Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize, Deakin, Gosford, Silicious, Georges River, Little Things and North Sydney Art Prizes.
Members of Entanglement are also Dirt Witches. Below they are seen in Dirt Witch performances, Spelling Seeds & Spells for Weather, by Janet Laurence.