Collection: Wendy Miller

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Wendy Miller lives and works on the land of the Gadigal Peoples. Originally trained in sculpture and drawing Miller is unconfined by constraints of a single medium in her work. Her current project Fragments from a disappearing world presents a visual perspective on the devastation wreaked on the unseen natural environment by the legacies of imperial and colonial practices. The devastation in the natural environment and in particular the loss of the kelp forests in South Eastern Australia is too overwhelming to take in without attempting to understand how it could happen. Thus the project locates the origin of this devastation in the global impact of empire building and colonisation, exploring how it came about and the impact on the natural world. Through a diverse experimental drawing practice Miller highlights the unequal contribution of humanity to climate change. Recreating the jewellery of those in power during the greatest period of empire building using natural fragments of kelp, glass and crystals she also explores notions of value and preciousness and raises the question – What is worth more diamonds or kelp?