I am delighted to share the details of my upcoming exhibition in the Beautiful Science gallery at Tūhura Otago Museum in my home city of Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand. I have been working with a range of incredible scientists from the University of Otago and Tūhura to develop the work for the exhibition. The project has been supported by a British Council Connections through Culture Grant and in partnership with astronomer Dr Ian Griffin who is Director of the Museum.

Elements of the photographic work was developed during my GRAIN Projects and Launchpad Lab Art residencies, and with the expert guidance of my mentor Ariane Koek and photographer John Hooper during my ACE DYCP grant.

The exhibition will include digitally manipulated photography, sound and written reflections from astronomers, marine biologists, physicists, geologists, paleoclimatologists and other scientists who have a special knowledge of the long periods of time on Earth and in the Universe that it has taken for our planet and all of it's ecosystems to develop. Alongside the scientists' responses, the exhibition will include a collection of beautifully considered responses from highschool students, including from Logan Park High School and Kaikorai Valley College. The scientists and students have been asked to write these reflections under the dark skies of Ōtepoti. I will be sharing some of these online.

This project has been such an incredible experience. Everyone has been so friendly and so generous with their time, and I have had some of the most fascinating conversations of my life! I could not be more thrilled that the first iteration of 'Earth, a Cosmic Spectacle' has been in Dunedin.

PV - 5.30PM on 16 August
Talks 11AM - 17 August. Free tickets available via my Events page.