RESIDENT ARTISTS
in the Black Smith Shed and the Banana Shed
Black Smith Shed Resident Artist: Jae Moore
Jae is in the process of creating an installation in the Black Smith Shed called "The Octopus's Garden".
The artist will be working in this creative installation three days a week, planning its completion by October. In October, Jae will be offering interactive activities . This exhibition will run through November to coincide with the up cycling exhbition.
Visitors are welcome to visit Jae on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday to see this work in progress and discuss the process with the artist.
The artist will be working in this creative installation three days a week, planning its completion by October. In October, Jae will be offering interactive activities . This exhibition will run through November to coincide with the up cycling exhbition.
Visitors are welcome to visit Jae on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday to see this work in progress and discuss the process with the artist.
THE OCTOPUS'S GARDEN
A CREATIVE INSTALLATION 2020
Jae Moore, Artist Statement
Graphic Design, Creative Photography, Visual Art & Contemporary Craft
This installation brings to life the world of my childhood: the colours, patterns and textures of that time of magical innocence. Growing up in the 1960s on an island in North Queensland, my days were spent
roaming the beach, ocean and reef and exploring the mountains, rocks and caves of the island’s ancient volcanic landscape.
Pristine waterfalls, tranquil lagoons, thriving mangrove forests,
gravity-defying natural rock formations, caves ranging in size from the cozy to the cathedral: once abundant sea-life and a no longer living reef.
Giant sea-shells no longer wash up on the beach, the turtle population has been decimated and the dugong drowned long ago in the shark nets. The reef is now buried under meters of silt, dredged from the
near-by shipping channel. The sea-bed has been razed by
mega-trawlers with over-sized nets, the ocean over-fished and polluted to the point of catastrophic extinction. Through human hubris, ignorance and greed, large areas of the Great Barrier Reef will be dead by 2022.
We throw our rubbish in the bin, not really thinking about where it ends up. The reality is it goes into landfill, polluting the ground-water or it
gets dumped into the ocean (or we send it to China and they dump it into the ocean).
Created almost entirely from rubbish found during Noosa Council’s annual curb-side bulk-garbage collection program, the imagined
world of highlights the impact we have on the natural world and its non-human inhabitants, reminding us that
our rubbish doesn’t just disappear, that our Utopian existence is someone else’s dystopian nightmare.
A CREATIVE INSTALLATION 2020
Jae Moore, Artist Statement
Graphic Design, Creative Photography, Visual Art & Contemporary Craft
This installation brings to life the world of my childhood: the colours, patterns and textures of that time of magical innocence. Growing up in the 1960s on an island in North Queensland, my days were spent
roaming the beach, ocean and reef and exploring the mountains, rocks and caves of the island’s ancient volcanic landscape.
Pristine waterfalls, tranquil lagoons, thriving mangrove forests,
gravity-defying natural rock formations, caves ranging in size from the cozy to the cathedral: once abundant sea-life and a no longer living reef.
Giant sea-shells no longer wash up on the beach, the turtle population has been decimated and the dugong drowned long ago in the shark nets. The reef is now buried under meters of silt, dredged from the
near-by shipping channel. The sea-bed has been razed by
mega-trawlers with over-sized nets, the ocean over-fished and polluted to the point of catastrophic extinction. Through human hubris, ignorance and greed, large areas of the Great Barrier Reef will be dead by 2022.
We throw our rubbish in the bin, not really thinking about where it ends up. The reality is it goes into landfill, polluting the ground-water or it
gets dumped into the ocean (or we send it to China and they dump it into the ocean).
Created almost entirely from rubbish found during Noosa Council’s annual curb-side bulk-garbage collection program, the imagined
world of highlights the impact we have on the natural world and its non-human inhabitants, reminding us that
our rubbish doesn’t just disappear, that our Utopian existence is someone else’s dystopian nightmare.
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