Launching our 2025 program is a stunning exhibition, titled Furari Flores (Stealing Flowers) by newly represented artist Cara-Ann Simpson. Furari Flores is a rich visual display of the Australian landscape and Cara’s deep personal connection to it. This exhibition is a multi-sensory project celebrating the wonder and exploration of plants. Filled with botanical magic, the exhibition journeys through deep listening, Earth admiration, and plant love.
Combining focus-stacked photography of plants and spectrographs, Cara’s still and moving-image artworks celebrate the natural world through sensory immersion. Each work incorporates spectrography, the visual analysis of sound waves. The spectrograph in each still image features her voice pronouncing the Latin title. Embedded within the moving-image works are sounds of the landscape from where Cara collected each plant specimen.
Furari Flores grew out of Cara’s experience with serious illness and a life-changing diagnosis. The Latin title translates to ‘stealing flowers’, which is a literal and metaphorical interpretation of the project and Cara’s story. It also references the continued use of a ‘dead’ language in medical and botanical taxonomies. This series is Simpson’s journey of chronic illness explored as a relationship with plants and places, and a rediscovery of identity.
Exhibition Opening: 1 February 2025, 5 -7pm | Artist talk: 4 – 5pm
Image: Cara-Ann Simpson, 2024, spirans novam vitam (breathing new life), dye-sublimation on aluminium, 120 x 194cm. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace.
