BIOPHILIA

The Biophilia exhibition wishes to create an essential dialogue about climate change and our impact upon the environment. Its is a deeply symbolic emotional response to our surroundings that aims to inspire an impetus for change. The exhibition includes works across the mediums of drawing, collage and floral installation.

By utilising the philosophical theory of biophilia which means an affiliation of life and life-like processes, the works wish to discuss our identity as one of many living organisms among our planet. This idea is explored through intricate imagery of humans and animals together amongst lush and fecund landscapes.

Situated within these images are different species of orchids which here represent a regenerative, adaptive and hermaphroditic symbolic message of united resilience. Wrapped around the figures bodies are gold leaf rootlets which are the male parts of the orchid plant and floating confetti-like amongst them are gold leaf circles representing ovums, both act as the symbolic expression of a life giving natural world.