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About this event

Join artist Sarah Lynch and writer Dr Prudence Gibson in an introductory discussion on Critical Plant Studies, the entanglements of plants, science, art and philosophy, focussing on the vegetal world. This conversation will draw attention to plant blindness, decentering the human and the importance of making space for vegetal liveliness. 

About the Speakers

Sarah Lynch is currently based in Naarm (Melbourne) and works primarily across digital and analogue photography, video and installation. Lynch’s most recent work examines the diversity of the botanical world and the relationship between plants, people, and the ecosystems they inhabit. 

Dr Prudence Gibson is an academic at the School of Art and Design, University of NSW, Sydney. She is Lead Investigator of an Australian Research Council grant in partnership with Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens Herbarium. Her recent books are The Plant Contract (Brill Rodopi 2018), Janet Laurence: The Pharmacy of Plants (NewSouth Books 2015), and her forthcoming book, Dispatches from the Herbarium will be published with NewSouth Books in February 2023.

Survival Exhibition runs from 23rd March - 9th April, Rubicon ARI, North Melbourne

This project has been generously supported by the Victorian Government's Creative Workers Initiative, Creative Victoria and Regional Art Victoria.