Tasmanian born & based, I am a practicing artist that uses predominantly flowers to create ephemeral installations. Throughout my degree and since graduating from a Bachelor of Fine Arts (double major in photography & painting) with First Class Honours (in installation), I have continued to explore installation, public, participatory, ephemeral and documentation art.
My ongoing artistic project aims to investigate the relationship between flowers and death within contemporary western society. As a culture we treat death as a taboo topic, with few conversations and limited rituals for mourning. Death is kept hidden, institutionalised and sanitised. We turn to flowers to speak for us when we have no words.
This practice has taken me on many invigorating journeys, such as artist residencies in rural Finland & Sweden, a studio residency with Contemporary Art Tasmania, multiple solo, group and prize shows and large scale installations for music festivals.
“.. mourning and celebration are intimately linked for we are linked to the world by the fact of life and death.”
Contact
a.giblin93@gmail.com