Hedera Helix

Site-responsive Art, Ecological Art, Ephemeral Art, Installation.

Colonisation and globalisation has seen plants spread to and from all corners of the world. Airborne, waterborne, bird and cargo borne, or borne in the luggage of homesickness, introduced botanic cultures are now complexly woven into the Australian landscape. In Hedera Helix walls of the white gallery space sprout with ivy vines and tendrils, spilling out across the floor, forcing a negotiation to traverse the room. Making this artwork involved the removal of an invasive weed species, English Ivy or Hedera helix, which was strangling local bush land in the area. The incursion on native flora becomes a twisting terrain to consider.