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Susie Pratt
Susie Pratt | 
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Sketches for Conscious Emulation #7, watercolour
Sketches for Conscious Emulation #7, watercolour |  |
Michael Zanko and Shirley Leitch
Michael Zanko and Shirley Leitch |  |
Amy Glancey and Susie Pratt
Amy Glancey and Susie Pratt |  |
Siobhan Lenihan and Felicity McGregor
Siobhan Lenihan and Felicity McGregor |  |
Liz Jeneid, Leonie Watson and Sue Blanchfield
Liz Jeneid, Leonie Watson and Sue Blanchfield |  |
Susie Pratt and Brent Williams
Susie Pratt and Brent Williams | 
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Glean
Susie Pratt
Faculty of Commerce Artist’s Residency 2007
6 September 2007 – 14 September 2007
opened 5 September 2007 at 5.30pm
“Before you've finished your breakfast this morning, you'll have relied on half the world.”
Martin Luther King
The Faculty of Creative Arts is proud to host the inaugural Faculty of Commerce Artist’s Residency in 2007.
In this collaboration, both faculties have come together to bring the Illawarra community GLEAN – an exhibition that asks us to think differently about our relationship with planet Earth.
New Zealand artist Susie Pratt highlights the coercive natural imagery used to sell packaged goods – the bubbling brook on the detergent bottle, the dolphin on the laundry powder - and invites us to live more eco-effectively.
This artist and her message of strong sustainability is sponsored by the Faculty of Commerce as part of their commitment to inspiring social innovation through art.
In line with the launch of the Faculty of Commerce Purpose Statement, this exhibition demonstrates how artists can open up new ways of looking at issues such as our growing ecological footprint that can be explored in research and in the classroom. The Faculty of Commerce goal is to enhance the role of business as a positive force in society.
Professor Amanda Lawson, Head, School of Art and Design:
“When Shirley Leitch, Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, approached the School of Art & Design with the idea of sponsoring an artist's residency and exhibition, we were delighted. This is a wonderful opportunity, not only to collaborate across the campus, but more importantly to explore some of the connections that contemporary artists are making across social, cultural and discipline divides. Susie Pratt's work is a perfect example of the fresh new approaches that artists can bring to all kinds of issues – her work is dynamic, probing and will provide a great viewing experience in the FCA Gallery. This is just the start of a fascinating partnership!
This exciting and varied exhibition incorporates installation, painting, print and artist books.
From the artist, Susie Pratt:
Every individual relies on a multitude of other individuals, social networks and whole ecosystems of diverse resources to construct something as simple as a meal.
Glean highlights the coercive ‘natural’ imagery used to gloss over the manufacture of consumables and invites consideration of alternative patterns of consumption. The works in the show propose that one avenue for social innovation is to mimic the cradle-to-cradle functions of nature, rather than constructing nature as an isolated image.
“The conscious emulation of life’s genius is a survival strategy for the human race, a path to a sustainable future. The more our world looks and functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.”
Janine Benyus
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This exhibition is sponsored by the Faculty of Commerce - committed to inspiring socially innovative commerce.
Image #2: This image shows an animation on a TV monitor of a Hurricane cycle forming on a CFC aerosol can. The animation highlights the heating up of oceans due to products such as CFCs. It demonstrates that the products we create can deeply affect us. This animation was inspired by the recent barrage of extreme weather - such as Hurricane Katrina – caused by a climate that we continue to heat. At the same time this animation celebrates that we can take control and globally diminish Climate Change, as CFC aerosol cans have now been banned around the world due to their harmful impact.
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