nien schwarz
Visual artist Dr Nien Schwarz has a particular interest in ecology and Earth sciences. Fieldwork underpins Schwarz's interdisciplinary dialogue with the ground beneath her feet. Linking science and art, her cartographic and site-based works, installations and performances, sculptures and publications investigate relationships between physical and human geographies - locally, globally, socially, economically, politically, ecologically, materially, historically, intimately, remotely, conceptually, spiritually, critically and playfully.
Her hybrid approach probes our collective dependence on natural resources – particularly minerals, water, and agricultural products - and the global quest to meet rising demand.
Promised Land, 2001 Perth International Arts Festival, included 800 shopping bags – each one hand made by recycling topographical maps - installed to echo an archive or retail display. Over my shoulder, 2006, PICA, included 170m2 of 'tiling' using discarded aerial photographs of arid Western Australia. Suspended drinking vessels containing water and earth samples lamented the wasting effects of drought and the constant search for water. In Earth matters, 2008, Turner Galleries, drilling patterns were painted using scientific and industrial geological waste and the inside circumference of a roll of flagging tape functioned as metaphor for lenses, drill bits, mine shafts, bores, wells.
Large projects have been supported by volunteers, CSIRO, National Library of Australia, Oil Mallee Association and State Salinity Council. Schwarz has held lecturing positions at Edith Cowan and Australian National Universities. She contributes to Art Monthly, Artlink, the Australian Art Collector and is a member of the National Association for Visual Arts and the International Centre for Landscape and Language at Edith Cowan University in Perth Australia.
Her hybrid approach probes our collective dependence on natural resources – particularly minerals, water, and agricultural products - and the global quest to meet rising demand.
Promised Land, 2001 Perth International Arts Festival, included 800 shopping bags – each one hand made by recycling topographical maps - installed to echo an archive or retail display. Over my shoulder, 2006, PICA, included 170m2 of 'tiling' using discarded aerial photographs of arid Western Australia. Suspended drinking vessels containing water and earth samples lamented the wasting effects of drought and the constant search for water. In Earth matters, 2008, Turner Galleries, drilling patterns were painted using scientific and industrial geological waste and the inside circumference of a roll of flagging tape functioned as metaphor for lenses, drill bits, mine shafts, bores, wells.
Large projects have been supported by volunteers, CSIRO, National Library of Australia, Oil Mallee Association and State Salinity Council. Schwarz has held lecturing positions at Edith Cowan and Australian National Universities. She contributes to Art Monthly, Artlink, the Australian Art Collector and is a member of the National Association for Visual Arts and the International Centre for Landscape and Language at Edith Cowan University in Perth Australia.
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