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A FREE Public Talk with current exhibiting artist Karen Keefe.
Join current exhibiting artist Karen Keefe in the Hive Art Gallery for this FREE public talk about the creative journey that led her to a Tasmanian Land Conservancy residency in 2023.
About Karen:
Karen Keefe is an American-Australian midwife based in Tasmania’s North-West who documents activism, wilderness landscapes, wildlife, and abstractions. She aims to portray her connection with nature and the importance of protecting areas of high conservation value through the lens as she sees and feels it.
Karen’s work is currently on display as part of the exhibition A New Eye on Nature: Tasmanian Land Conservancy photographic residency alongside fellow exhibiting photographers Kelly Slater and Nick Green. A New Eye on Nature is now showing in the Hive Art Gallery until Sunday 17 March 2024.
More about the exhibition:
In 2023, the Tasmanian Land Conservancy (TLC) ran a photography residency on its nature reserves, allowing three emerging photographers to deeply immerse in place. The TLC operates on the principle that to conserve nature in the face of climate change and ecosystem collapse, it is not enough to remove humans from the picture: we must recognise our influence and make evidence-based interventions. Through this residency – aimed at photographers marginalised from mainstream nature photography – the TLC has encouraged contemporary and diverse views and understandings of our relationship with responses to nature. As nature changes in dramatic and unpredictable ways, so too must our representations of nature. These photographs will spark conversation on what nature is, what it is becoming, and how conservation organisations such as the TLC might respond.
