Siteworks Capsule Talks: Kate Scardifield

As part of Siteworks: From a deep valley, Bundanon presented a quick-fire program of talks from leading scientists, artists and First Nations knowledge holders, sharing ‘weather reports’ from this time and place.

Kate Scardifield has a research-driven and experimental practice traversing textiles, sculpture, installation and video. Her current projects are investigating bio-based materials for carbon capture and storage, and working with textiles as propositional instruments for navigation, transmission, and communication. 

Here she talks about her research project and installation for Inside, Underground.

Videography by Drummerboy Pictures

Kate Scardifield

Kate Scardifield is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Material Ecologies Design Lab at the University of Technology Sydney. She is currently in residence at the C3 Institute (Climate Change Cluster) in the Faculty of Science, where her projects are exploring the possibilities of algae, seaweeds and biotechnology alongside the development and application of biomaterials in architecture and design.  

Recent exhibitions include Pliable Planes, UNSW Galleries (2022); FREE/STATE, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia (2022), The lighter a thought the more it rises, Toi Moroki Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand (2019); Soft Topologies, UTS Gallery, Sydney (2018); Ley Lines, St Andrews Museum, Hawick Museum, and Calendar House, Scotland, UK (2017); Microgravity, The Powerhouse, Sydney (2017); System of Objects, National Art School, Sydney (2017); When moving through ruins, The Glasshouse, Port Macquarie Regional Gallery, NSW (2016).

Commissioned by Bundanon for World Weather Network.

Part of the weather station: Bundanon, NSW - find out more here.