Siteworks Capsule Talks: Dr Prudence Gibson

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.

Dr Prudence Gibson is the Lead Chief Investigator on The Tellus Art Project which aims to re-value the plant collection of the Herbarium through the mediation of art. It addresses the affliction of plant blindness, wherein many people do not recognise or value the plant life around them, particularly in an epoch of climate change and species extinction.

Gibson discusses how The Tellus Art Project makes connections between plant ontologies, politics, ethics and art, drawing from her book The Plant Contract: Art’s return to vegetal life (2018).

Videography by Drummerboy Pictures

Commissioned by Bundanon for World Weather Network.

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