Crossing Kingdoms
Megan Fae & Jennifer Eyles
Opening Dates :
Wednesday 22 May – Monday 3 June 2024
Monday – Saturday 10:00am – 4:00pm
Sundays 10:00am – 3:00pm
Opening Event :
Saturday 25 May 2024 @ 11:00am
Crossing Kingdoms is a celebration of our visual and innate connection to fungi and the transformative power of decomposition.
Crossing Kingdoms is a celebration of our visual and innate connection to nature and the transformative power of decomposition. In particular, the unique ability of fungi to colonise decomposed organic matter will be a central thread throughout our work.
Our fascination of fungi and it’s ability to decompose organic matter, and to communicate and share nutrients throughout its mycelium threads, has opened up opportunities for visual exploration.
Megan’s wearable art and soft sculptures represent this fascinating connection between the human body, its decomposition as a natural matter, and the bodies visual similarities to the mycelium network. Natural and/or reused mediums have been utilised in this exploration to create playful and earthy pieces.
Jennifer’s paintings mimic the intricate patterns that are worked below the soil surface, from the branching patterns of the tree roots to the delicate mycelium fungi webs.
Inspired by the comparable visual and nutritional similarities of the fungi mycelium to the veins of the human body, Jennifer has illustrated these intricities in her works.
from the branching patterns of tree roots to the delicate mycelium structures of fungi.
Inspired by the comparable ability of the sharing of nutrients within the fungi mycelium webs and human veins, Jennifer also used thread like veins in her works.
