Raising awareness and public engagement with natural processes that can mitigate the impacts of Climate Change is the focus of my Fine Art Masters Research at UNSW.
Tender shows a long-term investigation into the capacity of this urban wetland to act as a resilient and sustaining ecosystem in the face of increasing average temperatures and extreme weather events. A wetland maintains biodiversity by buffering from heat extremes and managing evaporation rates in drought periods, while wetland reeds and grasses slow water flows during storm events and maintain water quality through filtration and phytoremediation of contaminants. Water is the intimate connection that is required to sustain in a warming world and essential for the health of remnant urban wetland environments, such as the REP, which directly influences the area’s endangered Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub.
Tender was an experimental work in the NOX proposal at Randwick Park in September 2016 for work to be installed in NOX 2017.