Devastated nature: the historical role of creative arts in memorialising natural world loss

View the artwork in Zadok Ben–David: Human Nature and join Susan Broomhall as she discusses historical responses to environmental trauma through sixteenth century French poetic works.

Susan Broomhall is Professor of History at UWA and Co-director of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions specialising in gender, emotions and material culture of early modern Europe.

Campus Partner: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

Zadok Ben-David: Human Nature

10 February - 21 April 2018

Take a closer look – things aren’t always quite what they seem. A suspended sphere hovering above comes to life under UV light to celebrate the rhythmic beauty of nature. A field of miniature plants resembles a bush fire-ravaged landscape, only to reveal new life.

These two breathtaking installations are the centrepiece of Human Nature, an exhibition by prominent Yemen-born, London-based artist Zadok Ben-David that brings optimism and a touch of magic to issues such as our relationship with nature and our views of life and death.

A Perth Festival exhibition supported by Visual Arts Program Partner Wesfarmers Arts.

Image credit: Angela Stewart, Salutation, 1990, oil on canvas, 191 x 149cm, CCWA 577. Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, The University of Western Australia. (c) Courtesy the artist