Sunset Lockdown Puffins
Artist Statement
It is hard to believe after the year that the world has had with the COVID19 Pandemic, that I visited the Arctic Circle in January 2020.
The Puffin, “Is it a Priest or a Clown?”
We have needed both since March 2020
Its genes name is Fratercula (little Friar). Its orange beak and orange webbed feet make the puffin somewhat clown like!
While we are in lockdown the puffins have a decreased number of visitors, so I have put them in Coronavirus lockdown at home as well, until we can all visit them again!
Puffin Sunset Lockdown ©
CORAL SEA TRIP
ADELAIDE ARTIST DIVES DEEP FOR INSPIRATION…
ON ECOLOGICAL VOYAGE TO REMOTE CORAL SEA REEF
In December this year, South Australian artist, Deborah Miller, heads to the remote Lihou Reef, in the Coral Sea, on an ecological trip to find inspiration for her artwork in an Adelaide Fringe exhibition next year.
Deborah plans on producing felted silk art works inspired by her voyage to the reef for the exhibition:
ella-mental@ ALDINGA ARTS ECO VILLAGE
20-21, 27-28 Feb, 4-7, 11-14 Mar 2010
10am- 5pm Free
16 Yacca Way, Aldinga SA 5173
The exhibition will also feature work by Adelaide artists, Maria Bray, Jenny Worth, and Julie Doddridge.
Deborah’s trip on the MV Eastern Voyager takes place 4 – 15 December this year to Lihou Reef 600 kilometres off the coast of Australia. She will join a team of marine experts who will explore the ocean, islands and deep reefs, never before seen by humans.
Scientific divers will survey lagoons, count fish, assess coral bleaching and scan lagoon reef structures using marine robots. Wildlife ecologists will document flora and fauna associated with coral cays and collect vital data on seabirds, whales and turtles.
One vital component of the voyage will be to consider how remote we really are, from the creatures that share our planet? An average six degrees of separation was proved in a recent study of 5 million internet-users. If all species consume one-another in the global food web, human beings are only a few degrees separated from all life on earth?
SHOES
Custom made footwear is often connected with orthopaedic shoes. I wish to change this conception. I think that shoes should be artistic as well, fit your feet and last a very long time.
My “Clones Series” of Mixed Media Collagraphs looked at the ethics involved in the production of clones. Is it ethical if they are produced for body parts? What about what is leftover? Are they persons? Ethical questions that just died rather than being answered?
CLONES WITH HEART
CLONES WITH BODY PARTS
THE LADY AND THE UNICORN
This series of art was produced as a response to a dive on the wreck of “The President Coolidge”. This was an ocean liner that was converted to a troop ship during the Second World War. It was on its way to Guadalcanal, when it stopped in at Espiritu Santo, where it missed the safe entrance to the harbor and hit two of its own mines. The Captain knowing it was going to sink, rammed it up onto the bank. All but two troops were able to get off the ship before it rolled on its side and sunk back into a shallow grave. The largest dive able wreck in the world.
The statue of “The Lady and The Unicorn” can be found in the Smoking Lounge in about 40 meters of water. This 3D ceramic Sculpture is meant to represent the Unicorn protecting the Virginal Queen. When the ship sunk the unicorns horn broke off and he was no longer able to protect his virgin. In my series the virgin became the French Prostitutes of Vanuatu and the unicorn became dead.
MOTHER EARTH
COME INTO MY WEB
