LICA BUILDING AND THE PETER SCOTT GALLERY
COORDINATE
Megan Taylor-Gaskell
Phone: 07541273839
Email: mtaylorgaskell96@outlook.com
My work focuses heavily on the loss of biodiversity and the disruption of natural eco systems by anthropogenic forces. I am interested in the relationship between humanity and nature and how nature can overcome the hardship created in order to re-develop and thrive in new habitats. The idea of giving agency to non-human life forms stems from my personal beliefs and my understanding of the strong importance nature holds.
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My practice is informed by my knowledge and understanding from research into biology, the Anthropocene, along with academic experiments and experiences – like the work from Anna Tsing – and cultural adaptations of natural agencies like Annihilation.
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My work creates a new natural eco system for post-human living conditions created by our society. It looks at the question: “If new nature would grow, thrive and develop today what new adaptational life form would emerge from our man-made environments in order for it to survive?” From my practice I looked at our capitalistic desires and consumerist actions and how they would accumulate into forcing a new adaptational life style onto natural environments. This then developed into a practice where a fusion between nature and culture can begin in order for nature to revitalise itself.
Photography and Sculpture