Freedom is a visual artist and printmaker investigating plant communities and bush habitats; evolution, recent changes and threats. Her prints visualise landscapes as plantscapes, studying ecological relationships at a micro scale integral for expansive areas of natural wilderness to thrive.
She researches with hiking boots on, drawing at scale on location, and later back in studio transforming plant studies into heroic macro scale images for printmaking processes. Depth of colour is built up using multiple layers of print, acknowledging the highly complex layers of vegetation and fungi networks critical for healthy ecosystems.
Elevated Swamp Regrowth beside the Diamond Falls
Silkscreen on papers
108 x 78cm
The charring of dense vegetation across the elevated Diamond Falls hillside swamp revealed a layered peat dense hillside - an archival repository across some 15,000 years of local plant communities, their evolution and decomposition.
Observing emerging to flourishing regrowth covering geologies of peat with crisp dense moss, fern, shrubs, carnivorous species and sedge species is remarkable.