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Requiem for a Canary

Requiem for a Canary

Waste Life

Waste Life

From the Studio: 2019

From the Studio: 2019

Brickworks

Brickworks

Dust to Dust

Dust to Dust

Concrete Paddock

Concrete Paddock

/dispatches from the studio

Natura Morta: I would love to see some friendly fa Natura Morta: I would love to see some friendly faces at the opening. Due to Covid restrictions we need to keep an eye on numbers, so please PM or email me in the next weeks if you plan to come. I’d love to see you. Opening Wednesday May 26, 6-8pm. Exhibition will be open Thur-Fri 11-2 and Sat-Sun 11-4 or by appointment. Til June 6.
Look who has been playing with her sticks again. Look who has been playing with her sticks again. . . 📷 @jessica_maurer_photography
Opens May 26: Natura Morta at #chrissiecotter Camp Opens May 26: Natura Morta at #chrissiecotter Camperdown
18 years ago I picked up this piece of eucalyptus 18 years ago I picked up this piece of eucalyptus leaf. It is marked with flouro pink “Mark n Spray”. Must’ve been lying in the path of a worker getting an area ready for building or digging. I kept it in my sketch book. All the artworks I did in the years following this find are somehow related. They are about human interventions and our interaction and relationship with nature.
More risograph prints at the @therizzeria with mic More risograph prints at the @therizzeria with microfiction by @katelistonmillsauthor for my upcoming exhibition. We will also launch her book ‘Dear Ibis’ at #chrissiecotterhallery in Camperdown. Opens Wednesday 26/5. More details coming soon.
Fragile - walk in the woods Fragile - walk in the woods
After working on @katelistonmillsauthor’s new bo After working on @katelistonmillsauthor’s new book design at the same time as my own work (which revolves around very similar themes), I asked Kate if she could write some text to accompany my works at my exhibition in May. So excited #serendipidy #sentinelspecies #stop coal #dearibis #dearcanary
Work in progress #naturamorta Work in progress #naturamorta
Revisiting the bushfires of 2020. A year ago just Revisiting the bushfires of 2020. A year ago just before lockdown I went to Mt Wilson to spend time with the burnt trees, and honour them by drawing their death masks. All these trees were marked to be cut down. I have not been back yet to see what it looks like there now.
Evolving experiments capturing the beauty snd frag Evolving experiments capturing the beauty snd fragility of nature.
Coal contains the energy stored by plants that liv Coal contains the energy stored by plants that lived hundred of millions of years ago in swampy forests. Humans, why not just dig it up, burn it and make cheap plastic crap with it? But guess what! In the end... plants will always win. Might be a few million years later, but they will win.
Thanks @katelistonmillsauthor for making me aware Thanks @katelistonmillsauthor for making me aware of this thought by Kurt Vonnegut. It brings yet another angle to the exploration around the canary vs coal work. . „I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are super-sensitive. They keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize that there is any danger whatsoever.” -Kurt Vonnegut
fragile fragile
positioning sketch positioning sketch
Wiped. . No day to celebrate. Its Bramble Cay me Wiped. . No day to celebrate. Its Bramble Cay melomy day. . . . #bramblecaymelomysday #bramblecaymelomys
Burn millions of years old fossilised plant materi Burn millions of years old fossilised plant material for energy and use other species to not kill the people who mine it. I have a lot of questions.
I am excited to be part of @artspace2515 's 'SUMME I am excited to be part of @artspace2515 's 'SUMMER' exhibition. A limited-edition of prints of my risograph-printed Climate Emergency posters from last summer will be for sale. (Important to me: All artist fees of the LE prints will go to support the work of the Climate Council @theclimatecouncil) My works will be part of a section curated by the fabulous Illawarra @burningpalmsgallery and shared with @patgrantart, @staciesimsart and @themuccibird. I would love to see some of you. The opening is this Friday 6-8pm. I will also be at the gallery the Friday after that (22nd) from 10-4. (Exhibition is open Wednesdays to Sundays from 10am to 4pm. Ends Sunday 24th).
canary in coalmine canary in coalmine
... other bird species entering the studio stage.. ... other bird species entering the studio stage...
Repurposed (Op shop) frames with “Waste Lifes’ Repurposed (Op shop) frames with “Waste Lifes’. Works are not for sale. However, they can be acquired in exchange for collecting a big bag of your local rubbish diverting it from our stormwater and waterways. #wastelife
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Bettina Kaiser is a multidisciplinary artist and designer currently living in Sydney, Australia.

Contact: mail@bettinakaiser.com

I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which I work and pay my respects to Indigenous Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.

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