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Completing my Master of Contemporary Art (2014) and a Master of Fine Art (2016), (Sydney College of the Arts) University of Sydney. My MFA research paper ‘Anthropocene: human influence on evolution and the biosphere’, helped me to clarify my connections to the environment.

Through the juxtaposition of size and beauty, text, sound and film I explore the dynamic connections between science, the macro and microscopic impact of the human presence, tourism and ocean debris on isolated environments.

My art practice and research as an artist/traveller/observer, uses immersive residencies or eco-tourism. These excursions examine a window into the impact of the Anthropocene and contemporary consumerism on the viewed utopian destination. With an interdisciplinary eco-critical vision my individual artworks and larger installations embrace various mediums from the traditional such as printmedia, photography and drawing, to the new media of video, projection and sound.

These artworks explore the genetic confrontations and connections of cellular life and by using the cellular image of a tree dandelion (Sonchus canarlensis) on wood and glass as substrates it questions the human terraforming that is happening globally.

You can see more of Lea’s work @leakannarlichtenberger