About EcoWorks & Gail's Gallery |
Environmental Art can be a rather confusing subject, as you may have gathered!
Let's try and simplify it by pinning down some definitions, so that we can see just what EcoWorks is About...
We already know that "Environmental Art" and "Eco-art" do not really mean the same thing.
Let's try and simplify it by pinning down some definitions, so that we can see just what EcoWorks is About...
We already know that "Environmental Art" and "Eco-art" do not really mean the same thing.
Environmental Art is a blanket term which covers a wide range of artistic activities connected to the Environment - land art, earthworks, nature art, cartooning, earth art, bio-art, site-specific, ecoventions, ecoart-tech, crop art, slow food, agit-prop, & more (Boettger, 2002). Many of these activities overlap. The Environmental Art movement began in the 1960's (Kastner & Wallis; 1998). Environmental Art was often more about postmodern art concepts than real ecological concerns. Some works even caused damage to local ecosystems.
Eco-Art is a major part of the Environmental Art movement.
It relates specifically to natural ecosystems, and biological cycles. Eco-art aims to educate us about natural processes and environmental problems, so we can re-evaluate our relationship with our world (UNEP, 2011). Methods are eco-friendly, often involving artists in collaboration (Wildy, 2011).
Eco-art is primarily functional and meaningful - educational, and/or activist - and never just for effect.
Eco-Art is a major part of the Environmental Art movement.
It relates specifically to natural ecosystems, and biological cycles. Eco-art aims to educate us about natural processes and environmental problems, so we can re-evaluate our relationship with our world (UNEP, 2011). Methods are eco-friendly, often involving artists in collaboration (Wildy, 2011).
Eco-art is primarily functional and meaningful - educational, and/or activist - and never just for effect.
Eco-Artworks vary widely, from using traditional media (painting, sculpture, printing...) to digital and performance art; from artistically restoring ecosystems, to using natural or recycled materials to create artworks, or even natural forces (water, lightening, fire...) (Baum,2010).
This EcoWorks website is about Eco-Art, and based in Albany, Western Australia. Though by no means exclusively 'Aussie', both my own and featured artworks tend towards an Australian perspective.
Gail's Gallery exhibits some of my own work, in various media - as does my Facebook page.
The Eco-Blog will feature a different aspect of Environmental Art as a reasonably regular update.
Now we know what EcoWorks is all about, and we can begin to see the bigger picture.
This EcoWorks website is about Eco-Art, and based in Albany, Western Australia. Though by no means exclusively 'Aussie', both my own and featured artworks tend towards an Australian perspective.
Gail's Gallery exhibits some of my own work, in various media - as does my Facebook page.
The Eco-Blog will feature a different aspect of Environmental Art as a reasonably regular update.
Now we know what EcoWorks is all about, and we can begin to see the bigger picture.