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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

Objet trouvé: Graffitied tree. Why? Objet trouvé: Graffitied tree. Why?
I thought the Requiem for a Canary was a suitable I thought the Requiem for a Canary was a suitable work for the Northern Beaches Environmental Arts Prize. I am stoked, yes, it is included in the finalists in the interdisciplinary collaboration category. I am so pleased to see this collaboration with @katelistonmillsauthor 's to be out there again and get a chance to be seen and Kate's microfiction to be read by more people. In the recent Natura Morta exhibition, we had a fair few people getting emotional looking at the work, reading it, taking it in. I was quite emotional myself when the risograph prints came together with the words and I had to decide if I actually can show that dark sentiment out there ...only to decide: I must. —————- One of the four texts by Kate Liston-Mills ——————- In the Dark His breast was puffing in and out, in and out at an alarming speed. Nobody saw it. It rose and sunk and it was so quick it was easy to miss. Especially if you were busy. Like a star his eyes blinked in the darkness. Rapid. Pointless. The men were digging deeper and had that heigh-ho-driven gaze about them. Imagine them in the stars shoveling, drilling, drifting in a vacuum. Floating through a forever night. Every so often a star explodes. The worker’s bodies shovel out there as the fumes and flames swell. Nobody’s sure where they are now … the big guns have long forgotten their names, but they just keep shooting.
It’s a wrap. Oh ain’t you happy to that THIS i It’s a wrap. Oh ain’t you happy to that THIS is not going into our river or ocean? . Big thank you to all the fearless rubbish collectors! . #wastelife #naturamorta
Natura Morta is still open 11-4 today and tomorrow Natura Morta is still open 11-4 today and tomorrow, Sunday. Bring your street rubbish and divert it from your local river or take a poster and pledge to put it up somewhere for all to see. Stay alert. Stay loud. Stay active. #climatecrisis #climatechange #climateemergency #naturamorta #sydneyartist #sydneyart #risograph #risographprint
Well it is a start. This rubbish will not land in Well it is a start. This rubbish will not land in our river! It is not too late to collect and bring your rubbish from your local street or waterway in exchange for an artwork. . Open Thursday and Friday 11-2 and Saturday and Sunday 11-4. Ends this Sunday June 6. . naturamorta #wastelife #chrissiecottergallery #threeforthesea
Mount Wilson Death Mask #19, detail. February 2020 Mount Wilson Death Mask #19, detail. February 2020
Listening Room with Kate Liston-Mills @katelistonm Listening Room with Kate Liston-Mills @katelistonmillsauthor reading two of her stories from her latest book “Dear Ibis”. The exhibition is open until 4 today, tomorrow 11-4 and Thu/Fri and Sat/Sun next week. #naturamorta #climatecrisis #dearibis #binchicken #pambula #sydney #art
Image drop #2 from Wednesday night’s opening of Image drop #2 from Wednesday night’s opening of Natura Morta. . Thank you to every one who could come. It meant so much to have you there. It was an extra special night with @katelistonmillsauthor ‘s new book ‘Dear Ibis’ having it’s Sydney Lauch... and a visit by @deepseaastronauts ‘ Australian White Ibis. . 📸 @imogeneve . Thank you
Image drop #1 from last nights opening. . Thank yo Image drop #1 from last nights opening. . Thank you to each and every one of you for making this such a fab night. . Made extra special as we launched @katelistonmillsauthor ‘s new book Dear Ibis! . We also had a special appearance from @deepseaastronauts very own ibis. . Thank you everyone. I felt so much love and had amazing support. . 📸 @imogeneve - you are a ⭐️
Dear Ibis, a collection of short stories by @katel Dear Ibis, a collection of short stories by @katelistonmillsauthor will have its Sydney Launch this Wednesday at my Natura Morta exhibition at Chrissie Cotter Gallery Camperdown
Natura Morta opens next week at Chrissie Cotter Ga Natura Morta opens next week at Chrissie Cotter Gallery in Camperdown. It has been a long time since I took my works out of 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.
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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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