Bee Poiesis: an art exhibition
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My proposal for my first solo exhibition since I moved to Switzerland has been accepted and I need your help to produce the artworks.
Bee poiesis is an art exhibition with community outreach, to be held 31 October to 9 November 2014 at the Müllerhaus, Lenzburg in Switzerland where I now live. This exhibition explores the relationships between wild bees, honey bees, plants and humans. It engages with the global bee crisis and loss of biological diversity that we are currently experiencing, through the poetics and aesthetics of human/bee/plant interactions and communications. As a newly trained beekeeper, artist and citizen of Switzerland and Australia, Bee poiesis is my response to these concerns and will include mixed media artworks, public talks by local, national and international speakers, and a series of artist workshops for school children.
Your support is vital!
Over the last decade significant honeybee colony losses have occurred across the globe. Honeybees play an important agricultural role in pollination, providing fruit and vegetables for human consumption, as well as feed for meat and dairy cattle. In response to concerns about bee decline and its effect on agriculture, more and more non-beekeepers are actively interested in keeping bees. With Bee Poiesis, I will attempt to create a meeting space for beekeepers, artists, scientists, local food producers, people passionate about biodiversity, school children, and in fact anyone passionate about bees and their vital roles in our communities. I have already received sponsorship to bring local, national and international speakers together for the public talk series. I need your support to produce artworks for the exhibition.
Please help make the Bee Poiesis exhibition happen!
Bee poiesis is an art exhibition with community outreach, to be held 31 October to 9 November 2014 at the Müllerhaus, Lenzburg in Switzerland where I now live. This exhibition explores the relationships between wild bees, honey bees, plants and humans. It engages with the global bee crisis and loss of biological diversity that we are currently experiencing, through the poetics and aesthetics of human/bee/plant interactions and communications. As a newly trained beekeeper, artist and citizen of Switzerland and Australia, Bee poiesis is my response to these concerns and will include mixed media artworks, public talks by local, national and international speakers, and a series of artist workshops for school children.
Your support is vital!
Over the last decade significant honeybee colony losses have occurred across the globe. Honeybees play an important agricultural role in pollination, providing fruit and vegetables for human consumption, as well as feed for meat and dairy cattle. In response to concerns about bee decline and its effect on agriculture, more and more non-beekeepers are actively interested in keeping bees. With Bee Poiesis, I will attempt to create a meeting space for beekeepers, artists, scientists, local food producers, people passionate about biodiversity, school children, and in fact anyone passionate about bees and their vital roles in our communities. I have already received sponsorship to bring local, national and international speakers together for the public talk series. I need your support to produce artworks for the exhibition.
Please help make the Bee Poiesis exhibition happen!
Acknowledgements
Thank you to the Centre for Integrative Bee Research (CIBER) at the University of Western Australia, the Kulturkommission Lenzburg, the Natur- und Vogelschutzverein Lenzburg and the Imkerverein Aargauisches Seetal for making the Bee Poiesis public talk series possible. Thanks also to the Kulturkommission Lenzburg for sponsoring the exhibition venue.
Thanks to Tarsh Bates for her help organising this campaign and the exhibition.
For German speakers
Thanks to Tarsh Bates for her help organising this campaign and the exhibition.
For German speakers
How The Funds Will Be Used
Your generous support will be used to purchase the materials to produce artworks for the exhibition, including a wild bee habitat, a digital honeybee hive, inkwash drawings of wild bees coloured with local plant dyes, watercolour paintings of local honeybee houses, glass etchings of agricultural plants that are pollinated by bees, and a glass honeybee hive made from frames from my own working hive.
Your support will go towards the purchase of…
Material costs $2460 ACHIEVED!
Postage of Pozible rewards $220 ACHIEVED!
Pozible fees (8%) $240 ACHIEVED!
Catalogue printing (300 copies) $400
Catalogue design, photography and writer fees $1,500
Exhibition venue $600
Exhibition opening $2,000
Translation fees $500
PROJECT TOTAL $8,000 AUD
Your support will go towards the purchase of…
Material costs $2460 ACHIEVED!
Postage of Pozible rewards $220 ACHIEVED!
Pozible fees (8%) $240 ACHIEVED!
Catalogue printing (300 copies) $400
Catalogue design, photography and writer fees $1,500
Exhibition venue $600
Exhibition opening $2,000
Translation fees $500
PROJECT TOTAL $8,000 AUD
Personal thanks
a personalised thanks on Facebook and Pozible
1 chosen
Est. delivery is Nov 14
Sticky bees+
a unique set of 10 stickers, each with a trace of an encounter that occurred during this project + a personalised thanks on Facebook. *image is an example only
8 chosen / 42 available
Est. delivery is Dec 14
Limited edition ‘B’shirt+
you will be the proud wearer of a unique limited edition T-shirt displaying an artwork created during this project + the option to be listed as a ‘Wax Supporter' in the exhibition catalogue + a personalised "thank you" on Facebook. *image is an example only
10 chosen / 10 available
Est. delivery is Feb 15
Microscope slide drawing+
a unique set of 3 limited edition drawings of bees, laser-etched on microscope slides, valued at $100 + the option to be listed as a ‘Pollen Supporter' in the exhibition catalogue + a personalised "thank you" on Facebook. *image is an example only
4 chosen / 26 available
Est. delivery is Feb 15
Wildbee inkwash drawing+
a signed inkwash drawing (15x20cm) of a Swiss wildbee coloured with dye made from plants in my area, valued at $150 + the option to be listed as a ‘Nectar Supporter' in the exhibition catalogue + a personalised "thank you" on Facebook. *image is an example only
6 chosen / 9 available
Est. delivery is Apr 15
BeePoiesis digital print+
a digital photograph of unique encounter that occurred during this project, printed on archival Hähnemule photo paper (no larger than 40cm), valued at $250. You also have the option to be listed as a ‘Golden Honey Supporter' in the exhibition catalogue + a personalised "thank you" on Facebook. Choose one of eight limited edition prints. *image is an example only
0 chosen / 10 available
Est. delivery is Feb 15
Swiss beehive window+
a Swiss beehive window, laser-etched with the image of a frame from one of my working hives, valued at $500 + the option to be listed as a ‘Royal Jelly Supporter' in the exhibition catalogue + a personalised "thank you" on Facebook. The work will be inspired by a frame such as this...
1 chosen / 9 available
Est. delivery is Mar 15