Symbiotic Ecologies: Delmar Gallery

Ellen Dahl

16 Nov - 8 Dec 2024

Ellen Dahl
Kath Fries
Talitha Kennedy
Eduardo Wolfe-Alegria

curated by Kath Fries

Symbiotic Ecologies is a creative response to the most pressing issue of our time – the climate crisis.
Curated by Sydney artist and curator Kath Fries, the exhibition engages with ecological thinking as foundational to renewed symbiotic relationships with nature, affirming the interconnectedness of life and all living things.
This approach seeks to counter the pervasive pessimism of eco-anxiety and solastalgia, feelings of loss associated with negative environmental changes that have already occurred.
With practices spanning diverse media including sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, and photomedia, the exhibiting artists work with a range of scales and variety of materials from textiles and leather; paint and photography; turmeric, fungi and beeswax, to create multi-sensory works that invite emotive and multifaceted understandings of ourselves as enmeshed within complex biodiversity.
Black leather hand-stitched soft sculptures, created by Talitha Kennedy, conjure the uncanny and embody a sense of fraught intimacy with the natural world.
Working with or around specific landscapes, Ellen Dahl poetically investigates the pivotal role that photography plays in the ways that we see, feel and relate to the world around us.

Delmar Gallery, Trinity Grammar School
Gallery hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12-5pm. Free admission.
Exhibition opening: Saturday 16 November, 3 – 5pm & artist talk by Talitha Kennedy, 2.30pm – 3pm.
Curator & artist talks: Sunday 8 December, 2pm