Dr Sarah Robinson is a transmedial artist whose practice is concerned with technical perception and digital technologies’ affect on contemporary printmaking.
This is the first post of many (I hope) which will begin the research dialogue between myself, Sarah and Donna leading towards our research residency in Finland.
I am very excited to be working as part of the Carbon Synthesis research project with UK artist Tracy Hill and Perth (WA) artist Dr Donna Franklin. Donna and I have just finished a joint SymbioticA Bioarts residency at the University of Western Australia as part of this investigation. We both began with explorations into the carbon cycle that drew on molecules passing from one form to the next.
I started to draw my ideas from life forms in the Arctic, historical events, and material engagement with algae and pig tissue in a wet biology laboratory.
I am currently interested in linking the phenomena of black ice to etching alchemy. I am examining Black carbon and its impact in Arctic environments which is rapidly becoming a recognised factor of climate change. The circulation of dust, carbon, and heavy metals held in soot and carbon aerosols are being monitored like never before.
