Donna Davis’s works on Jagera, Yuggera and Ugarapul Country and tells stories that examine ecological systems through a creative lens; exploring imagined futures and constructing new ways of seeing complex natural systems and our role within them. She is a multi-disciplinary artist who plays between science fact and science fiction, and is often embedded within long-term, deeply engaged ecological research projects to inspire her practice.
Cross-disciplinary collaborations are key to her practice, with her work grounded in science however resolved in speculative ways to contemplate the existential threat of the climate crisis. Working across a variety of media including video, sound and soft sculpture she creates other worlds and hybrid creatures featuring speculative symbiotic multi-species rearrangements that explore the idea of agency, manipulation, adaptation and mutation to invite viewers to think about their own relationships with the more than human world, and the future implications of our actions.
