Biodiversity Brush Stroke | 2025

Biodiversity Brush Stroke is a hanging sculpture exploring punch-needle and revived rugmaking techniques – progging, hooking.

Histories of reusing well-worn domestic textiles and threads aligns with the care and repair concerns of both ecosystem regeneration and clothing repair cultures.

Materials from bush regeneration are incorporated – work shirts, surveyors string. Lines form dense canopies, forest landscapes. Intentional imperfections – fibres spilling out, fraying, patches left unfinished, some starkly artificial, are intentional comments of our hand replicating the complexity of natural ecosystems. This work is part of a series Tessellated Landscapes – a number of projects that merge my interests in contemporary art, ecology, and science and draws on my research about how tree species disperse across terrains. In the hilly region where this work is grounded, landscapes are often viewed from high vantage points or Google Earth imaging.

These perspectives influence the visual and conceptual focus of this series connecting creative visualisation with data about land management and ecological patterns. The texture of native vegetation overlaid with tessellated clearing, fencing and revegetation is visually captured by punch-needle and rugmaking techniques.