I acknowledge and pay respect to custodians – past present and emerging – on sovereign Dharawal Wodi Wodi land where I live and conduct this creative practice. I extend this respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. As a beneficiary of a colonial continuum and the resulting disproportionate distribution of wealth across this continent – I Pay the Rent – and invite you to do so too.

Bianca Hester

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Bianca Hester’s practice explores entanglements of materiality, place and the forces of ecological change across timescales, producing expansive artworks that cultivate new modes of attentive, relational embodiment amid the pressures of climate crisis.


Recent work investigates interconnections between colonial inheritance, extraction, environmental crisis, evolution and extinction across the Australian continent. Employing situational methodologies – she combines experimental fieldwork, engaging the geologic record, site-writing, sculptural production, collaboration and performed actions – to develop projects that unpack the material conditions of specific places. This results in an expansive form of public art unfolding in dialogue with a range of interlocutors and participants.

Fashioning Discontinuities (1) Centre for Contemporary Photography
(2009)

EXHIBITION DATE
5 June – 2 August, 2009

VENUE
Centre for Contemporary Photography

Assembling the forces of brick, air and image, fashioning discontinuities staged a sequence of architectural appropriations that engaged with materiality in relation to movement, space and embodiment.

7 interruptions were installed in the exhibition space, oriented frontally in relation to the architecture which consisted of: A brickwall at the entrance; a rope installed at neck-height, then diagonally along the expanse of a wall; wood/chain assemblage across the floor; masking tape on a diagonal across 2 concrete blocks; 2 pine planks installed from the roof to the floor; a bluestone boulder; an image on a stack of A3 paper on the ground; an hour-long sit-in staged during the opening

Anthropogenic, Archive, Basalt, Brick, Bronze, Colonial continuums, Coal, Concrete, Cosmic, Deep time, Digging, Dirt, Dust, Embodiment, Extractivism, Extinctions, Floor, Fossil, Fragment, Geologies, Groundwork, Installation, Materiality, Object, People, Performance, Permian, Place, Plant life, Process, Meteorite, Moving, Moving image, Rubbings, Sandstone, Sculpture, Singular objects, Site, Sociality, Steel, Still image, Textual, Triassic, Walking, Wall.