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| Wolfgang Laib's Pollen Work |
'The Vanishing Bee, Colony Collapse Disorder, the Plight of the Honey Bee' all describe the devastating environmental crisis that is affecting honeybee colonies worldwide. As a sculptural artist I have been both terrified and fascinated by this subject for the last few years of my artistic practice. It began when I needed a new sculptural material that could be found locally, was eco-friendly and very malleable, I found Dartmoor beeswax. I believe that as an artist I am in a position of responsibility to use my work as a tool to promote awareness, which would result in changes to our immediate and shared environment. Through artistic experimentation and interdisciplinary enquiry I have created a number of sculptural forms that promote the awareness of CCD.
My work has been greatly influenced by Wolfgang Laib’s delicately haunting pollen and beeswax artworks, Roger Ackling’s simple but striking sun burnt drawings and sciences from plotting weather and sun patterns to entomology.
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