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Turaluralu Tuvalu

here comes that sinking feeling from the series Turaluralu Tuvalu

Weather and climate relate to one another as the short-term here and now that is derived from, but also cumulatively drives, the long-term then and there. Weather, seemingly tangible through our parochial immersion in our immediate surroundings, versus climate, seemingly intangible as a vast entity of intractable complexity lying beyond our reach. Or so it may have seemed in pre-anthropocene eons…

Turaluralu Tuvalu looks at the interplay between the seemingly tangible and intangible dimensions of climate change. The tangible here and right now, of trees at the shoreline which cling to shifting sands, versus the intangible there, of shapeshifting constellations of light, water and vapour playing out over the distant ocean in an all together different time scale. The series plays these spaces and times off one another as it navigates between these dimensions, to construct a view of the oscillation between tangible and intangible in the wider world.

Closer to home, the bigger picture is a bidding 'tooraloo' (goodbye) to the islands most susceptible to climate change induced sea level rise.

This exhibition was produced through an Artist Residency at the Department of Photography and Media Art at ANU School of Art in 2011. It was first shown at the ANU Pacific Institute Causes and Consequences of Environmental Transformation in the Pacific workshop in 2011.

In the forthcoming exhibition at Chrissie Cotter Gallery it is being shown alongside when i was a buoyant, a community engagement project of staged solo portrait photographs depicting future sea level rise in different climate change trajectories.

The titles of the exhibited photographs

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