Outdoor Gallery Art Projection: Beth Mitchell's 'Holocene'

Brisbane City Council’s Outdoor Gallery transforms Brisbane’s laneways into imaginative, curious, and engaging spaces. Comprising of light boxes, banner, vitrines and evening projections. This artwork ‘Holocene’ by Beth Mitchell is part of Council’s Digital Art in the Collection. Brisbane City Council ‘s Public Art Collection features more than 200 artworks by local, national and internationally renowned artists. This diverse collection comprises artworks in a range of media from traditional bronze sculptures through to contemporary time-based art. About the artwork: ‘Holocene’ ‘Holocene’ traces the interplay of Nature and Humanity in an underwater illustrative photographic + video ensemble. Cinemagraphic collages of local, foraged natural elements portray earth’s garden timeline impacted by humanity’s exploitation and devastation. The film cycles through stages of earths natural timeline while humanity presents both a harmonious and destructive presence throughout. Primitive lifeforms are suspended in nourishing fluid in our earliest environment, to Australian Natives developing and releasing life force into an ever more fruitful Nature. Lastly, glorious abundance as earth garden is enriched, while shadowed increasingly beneath the darkness of Humanity’s blind choices. Flame presents destruction causing the cycle to begin again. About the artist: Beth Mitchell Born in Toowoomba, Queensland 1991, Beth Mitchell invested a majority of her youth lost in creative expression and underwater experimentation through the medium of digital photography. Her work explores diverse femininity and contemporary womanhood through environmental, social and cultural stories and experiences in a captivating world under the surface. Beth’s work is held in public and private collections internationally. Location: Howard Smith Wharves Art Projection (see location on Google maps).