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Eco-Art and Reeling in Anthropogenic Adversity
Summary
This paper explores how eco-art practices can raise awareness of anthropogenic pollution, including microplastics, by engaging communities through creative and visual approaches. The authors argue that artistic interventions can complement scientific communication in addressing environmental adversity.
This chapter reflects on large-scale works of Eco-art created and exhibited in Far North Queensland. These works, inspired by environmental science, aim to create images of Anthropogenic adversity to engage peoples emotions, imagination, and intellect, and encourage reflection and understanding of our environmental crisis. The artwork explored here engages with Australian environmental issues around coral bleaching, marine pollution, microplastics, and the impact of pollution on both humans and more-than-humans. Works of Eco-art can supplement scientific reporting by synthesising complex and abstract topics and presenting them in tangible and relatable artefacts. The works of Eco-art explored here draw together knowledge and creative responses to our blue environmental crises, and depict consequences in locally relevant, tangible forms to foster an understanding of the impacts of the materials we consume and to encourage sustainable choices to protect the environment.