Diploria Lamp
Latex, LED light and chord with base
approx. 20cm x 21cm
Diploria Lamp is a round latex lampshade aesthetically informed by diploria (or ‘brain coral’) that ponders the entanglement of humans with the more-than-human world. It emanates a warm glow as a hopeful plea for a future wherein the practice of interspecies kinship is commonplace. Bella’s latex sculptures often explore biological commonalities and interdependencies between human and nonhuman life forms, using latex for its flesh-like quality. Her work seeks to trial alternative, eco-centric approaches to eco-installation art, while aiding the accessibility and impact of ecological research to better educate public audiences about ongoing damage to marine life.
Latex, LED light and chord with base
approx. 20cm x 21cm
Diploria Lamp is a round latex lampshade aesthetically informed by diploria (or ‘brain coral’) that ponders the entanglement of humans with the more-than-human world. It emanates a warm glow as a hopeful plea for a future wherein the practice of interspecies kinship is commonplace. Bella’s latex sculptures often explore biological commonalities and interdependencies between human and nonhuman life forms, using latex for its flesh-like quality. Her work seeks to trial alternative, eco-centric approaches to eco-installation art, while aiding the accessibility and impact of ecological research to better educate public audiences about ongoing damage to marine life.
Latex, LED light and chord with base
approx. 20cm x 21cm
Diploria Lamp is a round latex lampshade aesthetically informed by diploria (or ‘brain coral’) that ponders the entanglement of humans with the more-than-human world. It emanates a warm glow as a hopeful plea for a future wherein the practice of interspecies kinship is commonplace. Bella’s latex sculptures often explore biological commonalities and interdependencies between human and nonhuman life forms, using latex for its flesh-like quality. Her work seeks to trial alternative, eco-centric approaches to eco-installation art, while aiding the accessibility and impact of ecological research to better educate public audiences about ongoing damage to marine life.
Bella Deary is a Meanjin (Brisbane) based visual artist and PhD candidate whose art practice challenges the anthropocentric worldview dominating the Anthropocene, gathering influence from ecological philosophy and marine science. Her practice-led research sees the creation of multimedia installations that interweave latex sculptures with video projection, sound, architecture, and electronics, provoked by themes of interspecies entanglement and symbiosis. Bella's current PhD research investigates art-science collaborations via an interdisciplinary collaboration with a UQ marine ecological research team monitoring coral communities in Moreton Bay. Bella is supported by an Australian Government RTP Scholarship. She was the 2022 recipient of the CIESJ HDR Research Showcase Creative Work Prize; the 2021 Hilde Chenhall Memorial Scholarship; and the 2020 Milani Family Art Prize. She has exhibited widely throughout Southeast Queensland, Sydney, and Finland (upon completing a residency in 2023); and is co-director of Nextdoor ARI, an artist-run initiative supporting emerging artists in Southeast Queensland.
@bella__frances