Together Again Wood: Cut (Part II)

By The Migrant Ecologies Project (Lucy Davis)
Thursday 5 to Sunday 22 November
The Substation Gallery
Opening Hours: 11am to 8pm daily

Artist Talk: Saturday 21 November, 4.30pm

Free Admission

The Migrant Ecologies Project embraces concerned explorers, curious collectors, daughters of woodcutters, miners of memories and art by nature. The project evolves through and around past and present movements and migrations of nature cultures in art and life in Southeast Asia.

This solo exhibition by Lucy Davis commissioned by The Substation consists of wood print collages, charcoal drawings and fragments of animation encircling memories of a tropical hardwood bed purchased in Singapore. The exhibition is a continuation of Davis’ exploration into the “secret lives” of timber objects in Southeast Asia and ongoing research into stories of, and relationships between, wood and trees in the region, where both are explored as material, metaphor, magic, ecological resource and historical agent.

The exhibition also continues a homage to the form and content of the Singapore modern woodcut movement, recast in a context of ecological crisis and contemporary “cuttings of wood”. Other protagonists in this exhibition include: The nineteenth century natural historian, Alfred Russell Wallace; Flora and fauna engravings from Wallace’s seminal Southeast Asian work The Malay Archipelago; William Farquhar, (Resident of Malacca and first British Resident and Commandant of Singapore); and shadow puppet, wood print renditions of the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Prints.

Lucy Davis is a Visual Artist, Art Writer. Assistant Professor at The School of Art Design and Media Nanlyang Technological University Artist. She is artist in Residence with Double Helix Timber Tracking Technologies