The Unnatural Museum

Environmental Art @ LHQ Gallery, Cork County Council

This is an investigation of visual mutations, showing the illusory blend between organic and inorganic. By appropriating the scientific methods of the natural history museum – in ordering, labelling, and exhibiting – the conflicting materiality displayed in lit cabinets of curiosities or macro photography, challenge the viewer’s perception as the divide between Naturalia and Artificialia trick the eye.

environment art maquette combine plastic and organic materials

Plastic Bottle / Plastic Utrem, Tralong Beach, Cork

Sea Urching claws / Echinus Esculentus, Inishboffin, Cork

Fishbone / Pisces Os, Turk Head, Cork

Fishbone / Pisces Os, Cape Turk, Cork

Clay model / Lutum Imaginarium

Oyster / Ostrea Edulis, Baltimore, Cork

Specimens

Environmental Photography Available in Studio Store

Portuguese Man'A War photo print on archival paper

Installation

Lightboxes

Environmental art displayed in lit cabinets of curiosities under glass domes lighted with led

AQUA IMAGINARIUM

TEREDO NAVALIS

AQUA IMAGINARIUM

Hippocampus REIDI

Holocene

Ceramic Fossils

Microplastics have become a component of our water, soil, and organisms and they are an unquestionable intervention in our present geologic period. How will this be recorded by our knowledge and history institutions? How will our Holocene land-fields be represented in the geologic stratigraphic samples? As trilobites were the markers of the Cambrian rock formation, will bottle caps become the alternative stratigraphic marker of our Quaternary period?