Shona Wilson’s Macroscopic Vision
Sydney’s King Street Gallery is currently home to Macroscope, a collection of exquisitely crafted mixed media sculptures by Australian artist Shona Wilson. Her artworks are intricate weavings of found elements such as twigs, leaves, seeds, fish scales, insect body parts, feathers, crab claws, and seaweed.
These fragile mandalas draw inspiration from Diatoms, a microscopic sub-group of plankton. Recent research has revealed that these tiny organisms – major players in our food chain – show evidence of contamination by plastic. Hence, each of Wilson’s artworks hides within its patterns a tiny piece of beach-scavenged plastic. Wilson’s work urges all of us to consider how our species shapes the destiny of even the smallest life forms that share our planet.
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