Art and Ecology Now - Andrew Brown - Concept Research

'In recent times, however, there has been growing tendency in contemporary art to consider the natural world not only as a source of inspiration or subject to represent, but also as realm to influence directly - a sphere of action to transform and improve through creative means.'

Bright Ugochukwu Eke - Acid Rain

"widespread disregard for the environment by polluting authorities and powerful corporations, but also on the damage caused by individuals who little indiscriminately"
Plastic bags filled with water hung from the ceiling that represent raindrops. However when you look closely they contain charcoal-coloured carbon dust, a reference to pollution and the blackish acid rain in industrialised countries. The installation also reflects Eke's own experience when working outside in the deltaregion of Nigeria, where after just two days the toxic rainfall had caused burns to his skin.

Suky Best - The return of the Native

"It considered how landscape has been affected and reflected by technology"
The pictures are in fact a blend of fact and fiction. She wanted them to be convincing but not real in order to emphasis that something has been lost and can never been recovered.

Andre J Zdravic - A River Ballet in Four Seasons

Vivid colours and rhythms, interesting as the movement of the water creates texture.

Philosophical and spiritual insight to life, and the audience can be reached on  a personal level.

Susan Derges - The River Taw

'I was fed up with being on the wrong side of the camera. The lens was in the way. I was stuck behind it and the subject was in front. I wanted to get closer to the subject. I had long liked the idea of the river as a metaphor for memory. The river being conscious thing containing memories - all the things it carries with it such as rocks, pebbles, shale. It is nature's circulatory system...Walking along the river I realised that if I worked outside in the dark with something that was real, if I worked at night, then the whole night became my dark room and the river was my long transparency. I was able to work directly with the subject - no intermediaries - no lens between us.'

This is a unusual technique creating camera-less photography. Using torches, moonlight and flash out doors at night to captures forms outside directly onto photographic paper. Direct indexes of the moving waters, a trace of the actual thing itself, as it 'prints the flow of the river'. on the physics materials, such as the paper, and light to create the image, rather than focusing on the camera itself. Even though this was achieved without a camera, it give the illusion that it was taken and manipulated by technology. Process that allows the artist to fix shadows onto light sensitive paper.