Statement
2019
My research is broadly concerned with the visualisation of climate change impacts.
I am proposing that the Anthropocene is the experience of a warming Earth where humanity stands in the face of daunting natural phenomena as a manifestation of its own doing.
Earth’s Self Correcting Systems, series 2 considers our environmental predicament visualizing two global fire events from last summer. I propose that the most relevant contemporary sublime is the ecological one.
About the artist
Wasikowska is a PHD candidate in Photography and Media Arts at ANU. Since 2010 the themes of her work are a meditations on the built environment, and most recently, a contemplation on waterscapes and visualising climate change. She has exhibited both in Australia and overseas, and a selection of this work was exhibited in Poland in three solo exhibitions in 2017 and 2018.
Family portraiture is also a strong component of her practice and she was a finalist of the National Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, in 2011, 2015, 2016, 2018.