Artist talk: Intertwined
Installation view, Intertwined: Sean Williams + Donna Davis, 2024, Ipswich Art Aallery | Found objects, laser cut brushed aluminium, steel, projection. Photography by Katie Bennett
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10 Mar 2024
Installation view, Intertwined: Sean Williams + Donna Davis, 2024, Ipswich Art Aallery | Found objects, laser cut brushed aluminium, steel, projection. Photography by Katie Bennett
| Dates | Sunday 10 March 2024 (This event has past) |
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| Times | 10:30am - 11:30am |
| Cost | Free |
| Booking | RSVP to this free event |
| Age | All ages welcome |
Join local artists Donna Davis and Sean Williams as they discuss their latest exhibition ‘Intertwined’ with artist and writer Dr. Ally Bisshop.
Explore the depths of art intersecting with science, memory embedded in materials, and narratives weaving through ecological encounters.
Don't miss this opportunity to connect with the artists and gain a deeper understanding of the exhibited works.
Please meet us at the front reception of the Ipswich Art Gallery at 10:15am. Light morning tea refreshments will be provided.
Dr Ally Bisshop
Dr. Ally Bisshop (she/her) is a lecturer at Griffith Film School, specialising in the interdisciplinary field of STEMM in Creative Arts. Her research focuses on innovative storytelling methods, bridging human and nonhuman interactions through ecological narratives. This includes integrating concepts from sensory biology, animal behavior, cybernetics, symbiotic biology, and traditional ecological knowledge, alongside feminist posthumanities, environmental humanities, and media studies.
Dr Bisshop earned her practice-based PhD from the National Institute for Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales, Sydney in 2018. She actively contributed to the Anthropocene Curriculum at Berlin's House of World Cultures in 2014. Prior to that, she studied visual arts at UNSW Art and Design and participated in Olafur Eliasson’s radical art pedagogy experiment at the Institute for Spatial Experiments in Berlin. Initially, she pursued biology (microbiology and molecular biology) at the University of Queensland, graduating with B.Sc. Hons 1 in 1999.
Dr Bisshop is involved in artist Tomás Saraceno’s Arachnophilia community, exploring sustainable and equitable relations through the metaphor of web-building spiders. Her creative works and research have been showcased in Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Donna Davis, 2024, Ipswich Art Gallery, Photography Katie Bennett
Donna Davis
Donna Davis is a multi-disciplinary artist who examines human and non-human relationships with respect to ecological health. Exploring the intersections between art and science she is often embedded within ecological research projects. Donna’s work tells stories that examine science through a creative lens; exploring imagined futures and constructing new ways of ‘seeing’ complex natural systems and our role within them.
Donna has undertaken a number of residencies with Queensland State Archives, Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Science, and is currently artist in resident on projects with Australian Tropical Herbarium and University of Miami. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (ART) from Curtin University and has works held in both public and private collections. Donna has exhibited widely in both solo and selected group exhibitions, nationally and internationally; and has her work featured in state and national touring exhibitions.
Sean Williams, 2024, Ipswich Art Gallery, Photography Katie Bennett
Sean Williams
Sean Williams is a sculptor who works primarily in metal. Utilising his boilermaker and CAD design qualifications he has worked in the public art and architecture industries on local and international projects. His personal arts practice has seen his works exhibited in Queensland and New South Wales.
Since winning the Emerging Artist award at SWELL in 2017 he has gone on to receive grants for professional development from Arts Queensland and the Regional Art Development Fund through Ipswich City Council.
In 2022 Sean graduated with a Master of Visual Arts from Griffith University. His current practice explores the notion of objects as carriers of memory, and how these can be used to create narratives around collective cultural memory in Australia.