https://merindadavies.com Merinda Davies Thu, 20 Nov 2025 02:55:24 +0000 https://merindadavies.com en https://merindadavies.com/Enter Sun, 14 Feb 2021 00:14:35 +0000 Merinda Davies https://merindadavies.com/Enter MERINDA DAVIES&nbsp; &nbsp; I acknowledge and pay my respects to the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live, work and create on, and to all First Nations Elders past, present and future. Sovereignty was never ceded. ︎︎︎&nbsp;Enter site&nbsp;︎︎︎ window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-M3F8V8B5NM'); https://merindadavies.com/Projects Sat, 13 Feb 2021 00:25:27 +0000 Merinda Davies https://merindadavies.com/Projects Current &amp; Upcoming Projects&nbsp;<img width="5397" height="3602" width_o="5397" height_o="3602" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9939d63f14512ae54947775350edf503d5f1595ec1a9411308d33766a1f4ef82/000054.jpg" data-mid="211412192" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9939d63f14512ae54947775350edf503d5f1595ec1a9411308d33766a1f4ef82/000054.jpg" />⦿To Take Your Pleasure Seriously card deck&nbsp;<img width="1358" height="750" width_o="1358" height_o="750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cae21575a0ecce38a548c0a182aa484a5b15564b596e390045c6eb3a3636d584/Take-your-pleasure-seriously-deck.jpg" data-mid="241851856" border="0" 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Space&nbsp;<img width="3024" height="2005" width_o="3024" height_o="2005" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7a4092a2bfd49ce79eed340bfe60ca28721c12a28423b748a219a9037604147/Image26.jpg" data-mid="173179707" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7a4092a2bfd49ce79eed340bfe60ca28721c12a28423b748a219a9037604147/Image26.jpg" />⦿Conversations with the Forest&nbsp;<img width="3602" height="2397" width_o="3602" height_o="2397" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ce7bac357a0eaa6c65332b4001f93dff33d2810a12b67799fd04a18fabe756d/000040-1.JPG" data-mid="98796524" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ce7bac357a0eaa6c65332b4001f93dff33d2810a12b67799fd04a18fabe756d/000040-1.JPG" />⦿Write a letter to the forest&nbsp;<img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6ac44e2adb1a0ab26f0ec5ca2e908d0b825372168d0ccc0b7f4c1ec1f5f58c5/MD27A.jpg" data-mid="173313822" border="0" 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/>⦿earth-(re)fuge-3000&nbsp;<img width="7804" height="5203" width_o="7804" height_o="5203" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d459a281d4ef24f6b275cab1c0675c1f3809555cf15c3c7386e0b8acbc9f4651/2022-March-25_INARI_CatchingAWhiff_LowanaSkye_upload-8504712.jpg" data-mid="173182486" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d459a281d4ef24f6b275cab1c0675c1f3809555cf15c3c7386e0b8acbc9f4651/2022-March-25_INARI_CatchingAWhiff_LowanaSkye_upload-8504712.jpg" />⦿Australia’s (re)constitution&nbsp;<img width="1200" height="847" width_o="1200" height_o="847" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c083c73d47499d3bdbb9bb8879025f33a4226eb97f62e91c99fd894048309501/ezgif.com-optimize-1.gif" data-mid="173311419" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c083c73d47499d3bdbb9bb8879025f33a4226eb97f62e91c99fd894048309501/ezgif.com-optimize-1.gif" />⦿Sewing the Seeds&nbsp;<img width="360" height="640" width_o="360" height_o="640" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c46d857395daed222b66bfe24e5f77a3790ae1cf1eb9a1b099eba24ae4e4bc6/DSCF0513.00_00_10_26.Still002.jpg" data-mid="98796926" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c46d857395daed222b66bfe24e5f77a3790ae1cf1eb9a1b099eba24ae4e4bc6/DSCF0513.00_00_10_26.Still002.jpg" />⦿Take your pleasure seriously!&nbsp;<img width="2400" height="1600" width_o="2400" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/115b8211b1a1d27017cec730a74d883c915aaba6d81fa95fdb6d9467f51522e3/WILDWALLS_Nov2020_ArtWorkAgency_LR-02181.jpg" data-mid="98797322" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/115b8211b1a1d27017cec730a74d883c915aaba6d81fa95fdb6d9467f51522e3/WILDWALLS_Nov2020_ArtWorkAgency_LR-02181.jpg" />⦿#pinklighttheory&nbsp;<img width="600" height="371" width_o="600" height_o="371" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39cb4b71f4c1aa003e1c847485689dbed0fe1357af6bfc5ff794ad779bb62139/pinklighttheory.gif" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5732521f0ac29bf12079575b29f84972ddf99cbb30c27b7d6c78582ffa89b50a/captured-1.gif" data-mid="99152886" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/5732521f0ac29bf12079575b29f84972ddf99cbb30c27b7d6c78582ffa89b50a/captured-1.gif" />⦿In sync&nbsp;<img width="1366" height="768" width_o="1366" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c573b8d5c2f837e39e944dd9a208ecdd41533f579f8f6510b0357c9ff5dfc7f7/Screenshot-2.jpg" data-mid="98797545" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c573b8d5c2f837e39e944dd9a208ecdd41533f579f8f6510b0357c9ff5dfc7f7/Screenshot-2.jpg" />⦿Disintegration&nbsp;<img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd67a4aa9089aeca1b01cb886d649e5c5dba4637911497d54f495c8aad654bbc/Into-the-ether_Umwelt_credit-Aaron-Chapman.jpg" data-mid="98797547" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd67a4aa9089aeca1b01cb886d649e5c5dba4637911497d54f495c8aad654bbc/Into-the-ether_Umwelt_credit-Aaron-Chapman.jpg" /> ⦿Yuragir&nbsp;<img width="1252" height="822" width_o="1252" height_o="822" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/964ba745c8bc49e84cebc19f85ef3a503ad77921822b05f7920ccae69f168129/riverbend---Copy.jpg" data-mid="99944897" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/964ba745c8bc49e84cebc19f85ef3a503ad77921822b05f7920ccae69f168129/riverbend---Copy.jpg" /> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-M3F8V8B5NM'); https://merindadavies.com/Current-projects Wed, 22 May 2024 02:47:46 +0000 Merinda Davies https://merindadavies.com/Current-projects Current &amp; Upcoming Projects Symbiotic Marathon - solo exhibition&nbsp; Outer Space Gallery 12 June - 18 July 2026 Death Spa: a funeral home for the living&nbsp; Dearly Departed exhibition - State Library of QLD - 13 March-23 August 2026 Conversations with the Forest Open studio - 53-55 Cronulla Avenue, Mermaid Beach&nbsp; (ongoing)Cowgirls are Forever - solo exhibitionThe Condensery - 6 December 2025 – 16 February 2026 softwash - collaborative curatorial project presented by PUBLIC PALACEfull foam rinse and spin - 30 Aug 2025eating together - 27 September 2025&nbsp;at the waters edge&nbsp; - 08 November 2025 Ladies Lounge by Kirsha Kaechele - co-curated live performances&nbsp; BLEACH* at HOTA Home of the Arts - 31 July - 11 August 2025 earth refuge - solo exhibition&nbsp;Moreton Bay Regional Gallery - July - November 2025&nbsp; We are all eating and being eaten&nbsp;- solo exhibition&nbsp; Lismore Regional Gallery - 2 May - 22 June 2025 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award 2024&nbsp;- finalist HOTA, Home of the Arts Gallery -&nbsp;Sat 14 Dec 2024 - Sun 11 May 2025 Hold me Closer Tony Danza - The Farm- visual designerHorizon Festival, Sunshine Coast -&nbsp; May 2025 Das Experiment - The Farm- visual design&nbsp; Purple Festival, TanzZeit, Berlin January 23-26 202510 - The Farm- visual design &amp; performer Bleach Festival - 01 - 10 August 2024.&nbsp; Carbon Dating- ‘Sewing the Seeds’&nbsp; - QLD regional tour&nbsp;Dogwood Crossing Gallery, Miles, QLD&nbsp; -&nbsp;23 March – 11 May 2024Warwick Art Gallery, Warwick, QLD -&nbsp;13 June – 13 July 2024 Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, QLD-&nbsp;11 August – 29 September 2024Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra, QLD -&nbsp;18 Oct – 8 December 2024Tablelands Regional Gallery, Atherton, QLD -&nbsp;17 January – 25 February 2025Qantas Founders Museum, Longreach, QLD -&nbsp;15 March – 15 June 2025Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, Bundaberg, QLD -&nbsp;18 July – 7 September 2025 Movement Art Practice Research Residency Exhibition of archive - MAP residesResearch exchange residency, Ōtautahi Christchurch - Sutton House - 15 January - 26 February 2024 Centre of Contemporary Art&nbsp;Toi Moroki,&nbsp;Ōtautahi Christchurch - 18 May - 26 May 2024 https://merindadavies.com/we-are-all-eating-and-being-eaten Thu, 20 Nov 2025 02:55:24 +0000 Merinda Davies https://merindadavies.com/we-are-all-eating-and-being-eaten we are all eating and being eaten, 2025Lismore Regional Gallery&nbsp;Curated by Ineke Dane We are all eating and being eaten: across these works, the body and its environment are continuously recomposing and (re)constituting themselves in a cyclical relationship to the landscape. Davies explores the porous boundaries between bodies—human, plant, mineral—and the ecosystems they inhabit. The viewer is invited into the rhythms of consumption and decay, into the intimate thresholds where the body—both their own and others—dissolves into earth, stone, and memory. Desire lingers in the soil, clings to skin, embeds itself in the grain of rock. Seeking out the points of convergence where memory, sensation, and longing fuse into form; where the body's edges blur. The stone body, the earth body, the plant body.&nbsp; The body is both archive and animal, both eater and offering. Working with materials like latex, clay, soil, and leaves, the artist engages in a tactile dialogue with the land; pressing, molding, absorbing. Her processes echo frottage: both the artistic technique of rubbing surface textures into visibility, and the erotic tension of bodies brushing in close proximity. These dual meanings resonate through the work, where touch becomes a site of translation, transference, and transformation 35mm photography, audio recordings and text function as temporal imprints; fragments of breath, gesture, and landscape, tracing moments of contact between the body and the more-than-human world. The artist invites viewers to consider the tender violence of aliveness, to dwell in the fertile tensions between growth and rot, pleasure and entropy. We are all eating and being eaten. Photographs taken by Cherie Winter © Lismore Regional Gallery 2025 <img width="2000" height="1335" width_o="2000" height_o="1335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf178ec86f01bf8808aad959f35f5cbd3a3f93c052b8d05281cc4a07ba0aca64/27.jpg" data-mid="240869785" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf178ec86f01bf8808aad959f35f5cbd3a3f93c052b8d05281cc4a07ba0aca64/27.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1335" width_o="2000" height_o="1335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4d7e0d901dcfa7d8522f414d3d05b246c4515c58799715ae1f099ae35de089c/28.jpg" data-mid="240869790" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f4d7e0d901dcfa7d8522f414d3d05b246c4515c58799715ae1f099ae35de089c/28.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="1335" width_o="2000" height_o="1335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59ed7fe58d6329bec8fc5dc997cd638318d16ee37f13dd01d5c3334c7bdda3cb/25.jpg" data-mid="240869789" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59ed7fe58d6329bec8fc5dc997cd638318d16ee37f13dd01d5c3334c7bdda3cb/25.jpg" /> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-M3F8V8B5NM'); https://merindadavies.com/Breathing-Space Mon, 20 Mar 2023 22:55:14 +0000 Merinda Davies https://merindadavies.com/Breathing-Space SITE LAB// Small Gestures Towards Infinity Breathing Space, Moving Space, Resting Space, 2023 &nbsp;<img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e72a4d1a57237d44a214d5b0bc7a81a5344daa90cf1b17327ce551be6a4f10bb/edyp6g9E.jpeg" data-mid="196656876" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e72a4d1a57237d44a214d5b0bc7a81a5344daa90cf1b17327ce551be6a4f10bb/edyp6g9E.jpeg" />SITE LAB// Small Gestures Towards Infinity– a temporary public art commissioning project presented by Arts Northern Rivers and Lismore Regional Gallery in Lismore CBD, July to September 2023. 'Breathing Space, Moving Space, Resting Space' is a three part living installation connecting us to our shared breath through care, reflection and emergence. Breathing Space - invites us to consider our collective grief – human and more-than-human. You are invited to leave memories and messages with the moss which will be digested into an audio score. Mosses are ancient prehistoric beings, with histories dating back to 450 million years. Moss have survived and thrived through severe climate changes, from ice-ages to heat waves. What can learn from the moss, so that we too might thrive within collapse. How can we enter into a dialogue with the moss? How can we co-create new spaces of emergence? Moss acts as one of the best air filtration systems in existence, consuming pollutants, carbon and fine dust particles and breathing out oxygen. In this work the moss is an active agent in both filtering the air and our personal reflections - creating a breathing space for human and non-human refuge. Moving Space - is an audio guided walk taking us through the city between the two sites, shifting our view to a more-than-human perspective, reorienting our experience of the cityscape. Resting Space - is a place for resting and dreaming of the future of this place, a field of native violets, an earth intervention. Viewers will be invited to rest in the patch of flowers. A space for resting, listening and considering future visions and imaginations of this place. Community will also be invited into a relationship of care, through a public planting process and invitation to water the flowers over the installation period.&nbsp; Community members were invited to leave messages with the mosses through a digital platform here. This work was is a site responsive artwork made collaboratively by various species of mosses, native violets and lead artist Merinda Davies and sound artist Mitch King.&nbsp; <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eead63820d5058f8eb38248805db5a54b5fb6f06537ed97a58b9cb98735b01ed/ofvkBE8I.jpeg" data-mid="196658877" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eead63820d5058f8eb38248805db5a54b5fb6f06537ed97a58b9cb98735b01ed/ofvkBE8I.jpeg" /> <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e72a4d1a57237d44a214d5b0bc7a81a5344daa90cf1b17327ce551be6a4f10bb/edyp6g9E.jpeg" data-mid="196656876" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e72a4d1a57237d44a214d5b0bc7a81a5344daa90cf1b17327ce551be6a4f10bb/edyp6g9E.jpeg" /> <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/786b0f4f26328c089cbe504fd7baf6ddb4b014c728fa3b484669e08e441c146c/tpjM2eOS.jpeg" /> <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcd16b3a4322cface38c3c044cf7d0f565bacf2d0043ec4228ad15f1b3a27c75/wdgvSjcF.jpeg" data-mid="196658889" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fcd16b3a4322cface38c3c044cf7d0f565bacf2d0043ec4228ad15f1b3a27c75/wdgvSjcF.jpeg" /> Documentation by Kate Holmes Public programming delivered over the three months included: Planting the Flowers, a community planting event and a live listening/artist talk, pictured below. <img width="3013" height="1589" width_o="3013" height_o="1589" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cca905babdf8c48143b8da4a1e924ef750d17d9411e4492675b84e4976e6226f/IMG_4936_.jpg" data-mid="196660728" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9eb1af81a569bd77a364220faf14fd6e5cc9aea404834addbd960ebad2ef4afa/IMG_4942_.jpg" data-mid="196660731" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9eb1af81a569bd77a364220faf14fd6e5cc9aea404834addbd960ebad2ef4afa/IMG_4942_.jpg" /> Documentation by Grace Dewar After the temporary period of the installation this artwork was transferred and continues to grow in a living archive. This artwork is growing on Widjabul/Wiabal land of the Bundjalung Nation and acknowledges their continuing deep connections to the many lands, water ways, seas and communities that make up this place. Always was, always will be.&nbsp; This project is part of SITE LAB// Small Gestures Towards Infinity – a temporary public art commissioning project presented by Arts Northern Rivers and Lismore Regional Gallery. SITE LAB is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW, with financial and in-kind support from Arts Northern Rivers and Lismore Regional Gallery. <img width="2021" height="333" width_o="2021" height_o="333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4dd91dad217858e9edab2ebc22ad9551bc8aab587849a33ecbff24309491f4b/ANR-Classic-landscape-black-01.png" data-mid="174775337" border="0" data-scale="33" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4dd91dad217858e9edab2ebc22ad9551bc8aab587849a33ecbff24309491f4b/ANR-Classic-landscape-black-01.png" />&nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="2633" height="487" width_o="2633" height_o="487" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c6dca58ef91709ec6ab0f686e6baac619ba82607ce592ae46adfa89b5592d05/lrg_logo_horizontal-blk.png" data-mid="174775387" border="0" data-scale="28" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c6dca58ef91709ec6ab0f686e6baac619ba82607ce592ae46adfa89b5592d05/lrg_logo_horizontal-blk.png" /> &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="1180" height="1277" width_o="1180" height_o="1277" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8c68ce8574ff8d51a167a6bd1b9cf2d6054ddb1a6566878847ef68225c4c55d/NSWGov_Waratah_Primary_BLACK-RGB.png" data-mid="176849194" border="0" data-scale="6" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8c68ce8574ff8d51a167a6bd1b9cf2d6054ddb1a6566878847ef68225c4c55d/NSWGov_Waratah_Primary_BLACK-RGB.png" /> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-M3F8V8B5NM'); https://merindadavies.com/Breathing-Space-copy Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:25:36 +0000 Merinda Davies https://merindadavies.com/Breathing-Space-copy Leave your memories and murmurings with the moss... Mosses are ancient prehistoric beings, with histories dating back to 350 million years. Mosses have survived and thrived through severe climate changes - from ice ages to fires. Mosses are agents in air filtration, cleansing our shared air, from dust, carbon and pollutants.&nbsp; What can we learn from the mosses so that we too might thrive within collapse? How can we enter into a dialogue with the moss? How can we co-create new spaces of emergence? Share a story with the mosses. &nbsp;Tell the moss about your day. Send a memory to the mosses.&nbsp; &nbsp; Ask a question to the mosses.&nbsp; Release your mossy melancholies... “There is an ancient conversation going on between mosses and rocks, poetry to be sure. About light and shadow and the drift of continents. This is what has been called the "dialect of moss on stone - an interface of immensity and minute ness, of past and present, softness and hardness, stillness and vibrancy, yin and yan.”― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses <img width="2136" height="1534" width_o="2136" height_o="1534" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53da4cb2ed5a974a9adf1cce4f96610e566ba47ff46556d78bfc03767e9bb888/C030326-R1-28-9a.jpg" data-mid="196650795" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/53da4cb2ed5a974a9adf1cce4f96610e566ba47ff46556d78bfc03767e9bb888/C030326-R1-28-9a.jpg" /> <img width="2136" height="1534" width_o="2136" height_o="1534" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7da6cb44a3ac7d713b8bbe95221ee44c4bfbc3a7ac4185400237e2518050fd94/C030326-R1-25-12a.jpg" data-mid="196650794" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7da6cb44a3ac7d713b8bbe95221ee44c4bfbc3a7ac4185400237e2518050fd94/C030326-R1-25-12a.jpg" /> <img width="2136" height="1534" width_o="2136" height_o="1534" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92d972fea220cf12be561dfef32c516a909dbf7bdc99eeed86dbcf7b266eef2a/C030326-R1-27-10.jpg" data-mid="196650791" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92d972fea220cf12be561dfef32c516a909dbf7bdc99eeed86dbcf7b266eef2a/C030326-R1-27-10.jpg" /> Let the mosses digest your memories, your joys, your melancholies. &nbsp; You are invited to consider how we might enter into a dialogue with other than human beings? To consider our collective human and non-human memories of place? To consider what we might learn from the mosses? Moss acts as one of the best air filtration systems in existence, consuming pollutants, carbon and fine dust particles and breathing out oxygen. The moss is an active agent in both filtering the air and creating a breathing space where people can find some refuge. &nbsp;These audio collections will be digested by the mosses and collaborators and made into a sound score that will form part of ‘Breathing Space, Moving Space, Resting Space’ an installation, opening as part of SITE LAB// Small Gestures Towards Infinity – a temporary public art commissioning project presented by Arts Northern Rivers and Lismore Regional Gallery in Lismore CBD, July to September 2023.&nbsp; You can leave your message anonymously or with your name. The audio you leave will be treated with deep care and will only be used for the purpose of creating the ‘Breathing Space’ sound score. This work is being made collaboratively by various species of mosses and humans Merinda Davies and Mitch King.&nbsp; If you would like to stay up to date on this project stay in touch&nbsp;here&nbsp; This artwork is growing on Widjabul/Wiabal land of the Bundjalung Nation and acknowledges their continuing deep connections to the many lands, water ways, seas and communities that make up this place. Always was, always will be.&nbsp; This project is part of SITE LAB// Small Gestures Towards Infinity – a temporary public art commissioning project presented by Arts Northern Rivers and Lismore Regional Gallery. SITE LAB is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW, with financial and in-kind support from Arts Northern Rivers and Lismore Regional Gallery.. <img width="2021" height="333" width_o="2021" height_o="333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4dd91dad217858e9edab2ebc22ad9551bc8aab587849a33ecbff24309491f4b/ANR-Classic-landscape-black-01.png" data-mid="196650797" border="0" data-scale="33" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4dd91dad217858e9edab2ebc22ad9551bc8aab587849a33ecbff24309491f4b/ANR-Classic-landscape-black-01.png" />&nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="2633" height="487" width_o="2633" height_o="487" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c6dca58ef91709ec6ab0f686e6baac619ba82607ce592ae46adfa89b5592d05/lrg_logo_horizontal-blk.png" data-mid="196650798" border="0" data-scale="28" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c6dca58ef91709ec6ab0f686e6baac619ba82607ce592ae46adfa89b5592d05/lrg_logo_horizontal-blk.png" /> &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="1180" height="1277" width_o="1180" height_o="1277" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8c68ce8574ff8d51a167a6bd1b9cf2d6054ddb1a6566878847ef68225c4c55d/NSWGov_Waratah_Primary_BLACK-RGB.png" data-mid="196650799" border="0" data-scale="6" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8c68ce8574ff8d51a167a6bd1b9cf2d6054ddb1a6566878847ef68225c4c55d/NSWGov_Waratah_Primary_BLACK-RGB.png" /> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-M3F8V8B5NM'); https://merindadavies.com/Conversations-with-the-forest Sat, 13 Feb 2021 00:25:28 +0000 Merinda Davies https://merindadavies.com/Conversations-with-the-forest Conversations with the Forest Conversations with the Forest invites us to help grow a micro-forest in Surfers Paradise on Kombumerri land. Using plant species native to the region, the forest will become a ‘paradise’ people can enjoy in Surfers. A soundscape created for the forest will filter through speakers –&nbsp; tones and sounds similar to the electric pulse language of the trees. The work asks us to think about how we regard and communicate with forests and trees, and to consider a future where plants are our equals. ︎︎︎ Find out more ︎︎︎ This is a new work currently in development supported by GENERATE GC which is a City of Gold Coast initiative delivered in partnership with SITUATE Art in Festivals (Tas Dance), City of Gold Coast Regional Art Development Fund, Cavill Lane Surfers Paradise and Creative Partnerships Australia. CollaboratorsMerinda Davies - Lead artist Justine Dillon - Indigenous Ranger &amp; Kombumerri Traditional Owner Monica Gagliano - Researcher - plant bioacoustics and cognition Lawrence English - Sound artist, mentor Rebecca Ross &amp; Generate GC/Situate Art in Festivals - Producer <img width="1608" height="1136" width_o="1608" height_o="1136" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6aec29c63fd99265870fc1170eef3db9247b69cdca8c857b9571ac64cc90f71/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-1.42.18-pm.png" data-mid="138534477" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6aec29c63fd99265870fc1170eef3db9247b69cdca8c857b9571ac64cc90f71/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-1.42.18-pm.png" /><img width="3602" height="2397" width_o="3602" height_o="2397" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8da5c7ddc39c9810e1b07bd5521f05d0075fca6b795ec59400b8fe5d4b5a3522/000041.JPG" data-mid="98729857" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8da5c7ddc39c9810e1b07bd5521f05d0075fca6b795ec59400b8fe5d4b5a3522/000041.JPG" /> <img width="463" height="720" width_o="463" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09e020bbf918fe051886c2211e6952c1cafae7ef0eee19cfa0a3414c68a6d0ff/IMAGE.jpg" data-mid="122394113" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/463/i/09e020bbf918fe051886c2211e6952c1cafae7ef0eee19cfa0a3414c68a6d0ff/IMAGE.jpg" /> <img width="6135" height="2338" width_o="6135" height_o="2338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba92cbf49cceda211b0342468cdf525429235222a730b8b0d219e4f5abec0cf4/mindydavies_press-18.jpg" data-mid="122394173" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba92cbf49cceda211b0342468cdf525429235222a730b8b0d219e4f5abec0cf4/mindydavies_press-18.jpg" /> <img width="3087" height="1567" width_o="3087" height_o="1567" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b783187d02e8d26ca9df818a40ab82a035f60c7097860c2fea428ae3738407f2/mindydavies_press-22.jpg" data-mid="122394172" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b783187d02e8d26ca9df818a40ab82a035f60c7097860c2fea428ae3738407f2/mindydavies_press-22.jpg" /> ︎︎︎ Subscribe to find out more about the project ︎︎︎<img width="3602" height="2397" width_o="3602" height_o="2397" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d653cc3b162458109e2830252200b172ad73efa0e1e41d5fecb4be558b4ae6e7/000040-1.JPG" data-mid="98735467" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d653cc3b162458109e2830252200b172ad73efa0e1e41d5fecb4be558b4ae6e7/000040-1.JPG" /> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-M3F8V8B5NM'); https://merindadavies.com/Letters-to-the-forest Wed, 22 Mar 2023 04:33:48 +0000 Merinda Davies https://merindadavies.com/Letters-to-the-forest Letters to the forest *{margin:0;padding:0;} html,body,iframe{border-radius:0 !important;} Letters to the forest *{margin:0;padding:0;} html,body,iframe{border-radius:0 !important;} window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-M3F8V8B5NM'); https://merindadavies.com/Carbon-Dating Tue, 21 Feb 2023 23:38:03 +0000 Merinda Davies https://merindadavies.com/Carbon-Dating https://www.carbondating.art window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-M3F8V8B5NM'); https://merindadavies.com/Remembering-Forward Tue, 21 Feb 2023 23:36:28 +0000 Merinda Davies https://merindadavies.com/Remembering-Forward Remembering Forward Devils Ivy at Metro Arts Curated by Sarah Thompson with artworks by; Jordan Azcune, Christopher Bassi, Merinda Davies, Sophie Penkethman-Young, Jo Grant &amp; Kai Wasikowski Within the social context of the pandemic, which created an increased collective focus on the home and garden as an expression of identity, this exhibition looks at our desire to feel kinship with the natural world. Artists in the exhibition address how plants are owned, displayed, cultivated, and related to by contemporary culture. They examine our personal relationships with plants and how these pursuits serve aesthetic and symbolic functions beyond their ecological value. This includes the use of plants as artistic material, their objectification and commercialisation, their use as an experiential encounter with ‘nature’, and their cultivation as a form of cultural resilience. Remembering Forward, 2022Soil, seeds, spores, microbes, besser brick, sound recordings.Seeds collected in West End, Meanjin, April 2022.<img width="7952" height="5304" width_o="7952" height_o="5304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b36cfda415842da9cf2aa649d4b03ac3dc8f8622b9f2ae9b7e99fde0892b56f/Devils_Ivy_MEtro_Arts_2022_DSC00937_Photo_by_Kyle_Weise.jpg" data-mid="172474883" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b36cfda415842da9cf2aa649d4b03ac3dc8f8622b9f2ae9b7e99fde0892b56f/Devils_Ivy_MEtro_Arts_2022_DSC00937_Photo_by_Kyle_Weise.jpg" /> Devils Ivy Remembering Forward, 2022Soil, seeds, spores, microbes, besser brick, sound recordings <img width="1280" height="854" width_o="1280" height_o="854" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4e62eadf061cb4acf3b52433517450c5db7240bcadaf1f24ad0d59861e28a84/Devils_Ivy_MEtro_Arts_2022_DSC00966_Photo_by_Kyle_Weise.jpg" data-mid="173424078" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a4e62eadf061cb4acf3b52433517450c5db7240bcadaf1f24ad0d59861e28a84/Devils_Ivy_MEtro_Arts_2022_DSC00966_Photo_by_Kyle_Weise.jpg" />Merinda Davies’ Conversations with the Forest is an ambitious long-term project seeking to establish a micro-forest within the dense urban setting of Surfers Paradise, on Kombumerri land, Yugambeh language region. Described by the artist as a “living, breathing, growing artwork”, the project coalesces through archival and field research, experiential events and conversations, and a constant cultivation of seedlings that are both material and collaborator in this experimental public art project.Remembering Forward, 2022 is a site-specific installation drawing on various strands of this broader ongoing project. Seeds collected by the artist in West End are embedded in the installation, creating a stylised version of Davies’ studio turned plant nursery. A sound work developed from field recordings draws on research into the complex electronic communication methods of plants, providing a vibrational stimulation as the seedlings grow.<img width="1280" height="854" width_o="1280" height_o="854" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/97ceb57398c4657d2cd730243394b76023ff7085e36e5eb6e2b3b0694d58891f/Devils_Ivy_MEtro_Arts_2022_DSC00947_Photo_by_Kyle_Weise.jpg" data-mid="173424077" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/97ceb57398c4657d2cd730243394b76023ff7085e36e5eb6e2b3b0694d58891f/Devils_Ivy_MEtro_Arts_2022_DSC00947_Photo_by_Kyle_Weise.jpg" />Often engaging participatory elements in her work, here Davies invites the viewer to take a packet of seeds and begin a relationship of interspecies care and responsibility by planting it in their neighbourhood. To quote David George Haskell, author of The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors “Survival increases when saplings are embedded within the human social network. A tree planted by its human neighbours will live longer than one placed by an anonymous contractor. A street tree that is granted personhood and membership, one that is noticed, loved and given identity and history, lives longer than a municipal object arriving with no context and living with no collaborators” Photos by Kyle Weise <img width="1280" height="854" width_o="1280" height_o="854" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/252cef26ac9d272b35c651f9e6e3fe7849efe797a0792f8ab1bafcf119ba62b9/Devils_Ivy_MEtro_Arts_2022_DSC00830_Photo_by_Kyle_Weise.jpg" data-mid="173424075" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/252cef26ac9d272b35c651f9e6e3fe7849efe797a0792f8ab1bafcf119ba62b9/Devils_Ivy_MEtro_Arts_2022_DSC00830_Photo_by_Kyle_Weise.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="854" width_o="1280" height_o="854" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79e0249c7246dfd1ed2a52e62934addc0b654c3c2737d30d8c0e1c459b95fb54/Devils_Ivy_MEtro_Arts_2022_DSC00880_Photo_by_Kyle_Weise.jpg" data-mid="173424076" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79e0249c7246dfd1ed2a52e62934addc0b654c3c2737d30d8c0e1c459b95fb54/Devils_Ivy_MEtro_Arts_2022_DSC00880_Photo_by_Kyle_Weise.jpg" /> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-M3F8V8B5NM');