UnNatural History Talk: Artist Andy Holden in Conversation With Alice Sharp
UnNatural History exhibition artist Andy Holden will present some of his early works and talk about the wider environmental connections, from landscape to ecology, nests, and egg collecting.
Andy Holden, 'The Oologists Record', 2017/21. Courtesy of the artist.
In UnNatural History artists and naturalists from across the globe explore the role of the artist as an intrinsic part of the science of natural history - enabling our modern understanding of ecology, climate change, extinction, and threats to biodiversity.
The observational skills and techniques of artists, including their speculations, have enabled the development of the biological sciences since their inception. We learnt about plants and animals through drawings long before the advancements of technologies such as microscopes and photography.
UnNatural History features over 20 international artists working in Aotearoa New Zealand, Austria, Belgium, Germany, India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Singapore, Turkey, UK and USA. It includes four newly commissioned works responding to the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum’s own natural sciences collection by Frances Disley, Dubmorphology, Tania Kovats and Gözde Ilkin.
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