Melissa Stannard
Green Tree Frog (Litoria caerulea)
About the artist
As a narrative jeweller and artist Melissa Stannard is inspired by many things, from deeply personal cultural storytelling, to exploring and understanding nature and our place within it, especially the overlooked. From a perspective of intimacy she studies the environment where she lives on the Sunshine Coast, following the transitions of the Coastal Shorelines, to wallum heath, estuarine lakes, forests and mountains, capturing the micro and macrocosims within each landscape. Her art is about connecting to country and place, exploring traces of the landscape with an Indigenous spiritual practice of Dadirri. Recording sensory, visual, personal, cultural and environmental connections and impressions.
As a narrative jeweller and artist Melissa Stannard is inspired by many things, from deeply personal cultural storytelling, to exploring and understanding nature and our place within it, especially the overlooked. From a perspective of intimacy she studies the environment where she lives on the Sunshine Coast, following the transitions of the Coastal Shorelines, to wallum heath, estuarine lakes, forests and mountains, capturing the micro and macrocosims within each landscape. Her art is about connecting to country and place, exploring traces of the landscape with an Indigenous spiritual practice of Dadirri. Recording sensory, visual, personal, cultural and environmental connections and impressions.
Artwork blurb
Inspired by the overlooked, the micro and macrocosms of nature and #lifeintheundergrowth these pieces were created from my regular wanderings and explorations of different ecosystems in my local area on the Sunshine coast. From life on the forrest floor in Eumundi Conservation park, (foraging native snail - Hedleyella falconeri ), to the elusive dancing brolgas by Lake Weyba and lake Cootharaba, the plump green tree frog in the wallum heath and wetlands behind Perigian, the bush stone curlews that serenade at night with their haunting calls in parkland opposite my house, the cockatoos circling and calling atop Mt Ninderry celebrating my climb. Each piece evolving through a process of Dadirri or deep listening to country and created during my recent month long artist residency at Maroochy Botanic Gardens- Arts and Ecology centre.
Inspired by the overlooked, the micro and macrocosms of nature and #lifeintheundergrowth these pieces were created from my regular wanderings and explorations of different ecosystems in my local area on the Sunshine coast. From life on the forrest floor in Eumundi Conservation park, (foraging native snail - Hedleyella falconeri ), to the elusive dancing brolgas by Lake Weyba and lake Cootharaba, the plump green tree frog in the wallum heath and wetlands behind Perigian, the bush stone curlews that serenade at night with their haunting calls in parkland opposite my house, the cockatoos circling and calling atop Mt Ninderry celebrating my climb. Each piece evolving through a process of Dadirri or deep listening to country and created during my recent month long artist residency at Maroochy Botanic Gardens- Arts and Ecology centre.
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