New Studio 2024

The Farm, Margaret River

Wadandi Boodja

In 2024 I will be working as a Studio Artist on The Farm. My focus during this time is to continue and expand on my seaweed and sea wrack drawing studies that I began in late 2021. Much gratitude to The Farm for having me. 

*Finalist for the Fremantle Print Award 2023*

*4th August-22nd October 2023*

Seaweed Heart is a hand drawn vector giclee print of sea wrack and it is based on sketches done in Cowaramup Bay, SW WA.
Seaweed is a blue carbon, quietly helping the planet survive human inhabitation. Sea Wrack is the mass of seaweeds and seagrasses that are cast ashore.
There's so much emotion and drama in seaweed and sea wrack- all tossed, entwined and wreathed. And its these connections between image and language, humanity and Nature , that i'm drawing on in Seaweed Heart.
The soft deep black of Seaweed Heart was only only achievable through the printing process and the addition of purple into the standard CMYK mix. The black is also purposefully fragile, the paper marks easily so the print must be handled with extra care.
          A reminder for how we should treat the planet. 
detail seaweed heart 03
detail Seaweed heart 02
detail Seaweed Heart
Cowaramup Bay, South Point, SW WA.
ink sketch jpb2022
ink sketch jpb2022