Exhibition opening 5pm, Wednesday 28 May
Meticulously detailed botanical models crafted from papier-mâché, glass beads, gelatin, and feathers form the starting point for Bellamy and Fauteux’s video work, Radicant. Originally manufactured by the Brendel Company in Berlin in the late nineteenth century, these models were purchased by the University of Otago as vital teaching aids in biology and botany. In this work, individual models are transposed using 3D scanning and CAD technologies into a virtual space, accompanied by the words and voice of Colleen Coco Collins, who weaves the stories of each plant and fungus represented, illuminating them as multi-layered and unique characters and tracing the long roots of our relationships to plants and fungi.
This work was developed by Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux during their 2024 Frances Hodgkins Fellowship and was commissioned and first presented by Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hakena, University of Otago Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka
Exhibition ends Wednesday 18 June
