Rug up for latest exhibition
Council presents "Floor is Lava" exhibition by Emma Jackson at the Berninneit art gallery.
Bass Coast Shire Council presents "Floor is Lava" exhibition by Emma Jackson at the Berninneit art gallery in Cowes from September 7.
"Floor is Lava" is a free exhibition of ten knotted rugs representing Australian islands with a unique volcanic story due to their proximity to existing and prehistoric magmatic arcs.
Describing her work, Dr Emma Jackson says, "the intent of this exhibition is to provide temporary relief from 2024, by immersing the visitor in deep geological time".
"The ten volcanic islands on display offer a colourful and sumptuous retelling of geological history.
"They have an important job to do; to increase awareness of earth science and in so doing make caring about our continent contagious.
"This is the first time the island rugs have been on tour, so to have one of them (the Phillip Island rug) showing on home ground is very exciting," she said.
"And there is a home-ground advantage, in that the geological story can start with the exhibition and continue with a wander around the island."
There is a community exhibition opening celebration on Saturday September 7 from 3pm until 5pm at Berninneit.
Science meets art
Founded in 2020, Emma Jackson is a multimedia art practice that endeavours to offer an insight into meaningful ways to connect to the ground we walk on.
"The work we do is about belonging; knowing where your feet are," explained Dr Jackson.
"Straddling disciplines of art and geology, we aim to bring earth science to a broader audience and to reveal the unique and beguiling earth story embedded in our continent."
As the daughter of a geologist, Emma Jackson spent the first twelve years of her life as an expat in mining communities, in West Africa, the UK, and Western Australia. Her family's location on the globe was based on the age and behaviour of the rock and the resources it contained. Earth Science became a meaningful way of connecting to a strange place and finding 'home'.
Jackson then trained as an architect at the University of Western Australia and did fieldwork over summer with Harry Butler, esteemed Australian naturalist, on the remote islands off the Northwest of Australia.
She then went on to work for some of Australia's top design architects. She completed a PhD at RMIT in 2019 which proposed more appropriate ways of building on the diverse geology we have in the North of Australia.
"Floor is Lava" runs from September 7 until October 20.
Berninneit Art Gallery is open Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 5pm and weekends from 10am until 4pm, at 91-97 Thompson Ave, Cowes.
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