Emma Simpson Second glance

I am interested in the remarks typically made about plants that bloom. Stereotypes about beauty perpetuated through art have inhibited the appreciation of the ‘ordinary’ and ‘imperfect’, making the invisibility of common objects a recurrent theme throughout the past few centuries. My body of work is based on what I see where I bushwalk, with the intent of drawing attention to the overlooked beauty of non-flowering Australian flora. I examine the compositional idea of ‘two’ in my work through a symmetrical linear arrangement of dried leaves, tree-bark and banksias. I invite the audience to look again at the beauty of plants.

Influencing artists:
Leila Jeffreys
Claude Monet
Olive Cotton
Henry Moore