Double Vision, digital art screen in Double Bay
Double Vision is a digital public art project run by Woollahra Council. The digital screen, installed under the escalators to the Woollahra Library (Kiaora Place) in Double Bay features a range of varied video or other screen based artworks from different artists. Works displayed on the screen aims to engage and provide a point of difference to the public in this space.
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The exhibited artists explore our relationship with the natural environment as well as the man-made environment through their respective fascination, inspiration and concern for our world. Both works comment on the impact humans have and how precious our environment is to our existence and well-being.
Double Vision is currently screening works by Helen Newman & Abi Thompson and Lauren Edmonds.
Artist: Helen Newman and Abi Thompson
Title: Biosphere
Duration: 06:00 min
“We cannot live long or well without a functioning biosphere,” Joseph Guth - lawyer and biochemist.
Biosphere is a digital collaboration between artists Abi Thompsonand Helen Newman, that explores the concept of our collective human impact on the narrow zone of our planet that supports life - our biosphere. Incorporating animated digital projections and original landscape paintings this work explores themes of emergence, growth, and regeneration within different natural environments: forest, coast, desert and mountain.
Courtesy of the artist Helen Newman and Abi Thompson
Artist: Lauren Edmonds
Title: Eclipsed
Duration: 06:49 min
Edmonds directed, animated, and composed these animations for The Dark Side of The Moon 50th Anniversary Animated Music Video Competition in 2023. 2D and 3D animation techniques were used, with many elements hand-drawn frame-by-frame including the rotoscoping of recorded footage. The animations are narrative driven, while also offering an elusive thematic scope that mirrors the lyrics of the Pink Floyd songs they are inspired by. The artist reinterprets the iconic music of fifty years into a contemporary context, particularly through the exploration of the pervasive unease that can be experienced while living in an era of compound crises. In doing so, we can see the continued relevance of the messages and themes explored through Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of The Moon album (1973).
Courtesy of the artist Lauren Edmonds.
For more information on the public art project, or you would like to be involved, please email cultural@woollahra.nsw.gov.au or call 9391 7102.