First Light

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Beatrice Weidner (Gadigal Country-Sydney) works with drawing, watercolour and mono-printing techniques. She focuses on the dynamics in current natural ecologies.
The emphasis is on the interplay of ecological base elements, such as particles suspended in liquid, which are the building blocks of all organic systems. The work considers the resorption of ecologies into these base elements and their re-manifestation from this primordial matrix in an ongoing cycle of destruction and recreation.
The creative process driving the work embeds these natural occurrences through the chance-based autonomy of the materials and how Weidner’s perceptions of the world guide her water-based colour techniques.

The studio processes are underpinned by sketches and material experimentation following direct experiences of walking through environments and ecologies. In response to the current environmental deterioration, the observed landscape becomes land in a non-scape of material evocation rather than a pictorial representation.

The fluid methods and materials mirror the visited watery environments and the changeable character of nature, which is reflected by embracing chance. Much as environments and ecologies are subject to unforeseeable change, disintegration, and recreation, the artworks follow the same process of being formed and reformed. The focus is on discovering the potential instead of having a finished product. Hence, many works have been reworked several times, giving them a substratum that echoes those developed through the evolution of natural systems.