At a time of accelerating extinction, this exhibition explores how interdisciplinary artistic practices can critically engage with museological archives to create alternative frameworks for remembering and responding to avian decline.
Grounded in the artist’s lifelong fascination with natural collections, Christina Lowry’s practice investigates themes of memory, loss, extinction, and conservation. Christina explores the evolving role of the artist within ecological and museological contexts and propose speculative archives: imaginative, ethical interventions into specimen traditions, from naturally deceased birds to abstracted forms in porcelain and wool that form non-remnant taxidermy (taxidermy without the animal).
These works evoke rather than extract biological presence, reframing the archive as a space of ecological memory and creative possibility. Through taxidermy, sculpture, photography, and installation, the artist merge scientific dialogue with creative research. Ultimately, seeking to create poetic memorials for vanishing species and propose new ways of seeing, remembering, and caring in the Anthropocene.
Join the artist for a Celebration Event at Kingston Arts Centre, Moorabbin, including complimentary refreshments on Thursday evening 15 January, and a free art workshop during the exhibition. Please check our website later to RSVP.
Christina Lowry is a multidisciplinary artist with a research focused practice, working at the intersection of natural history, art and preservation. Recognised for her photography and installation work with central themes of nature, memento mori, and speculative archive.
Image credit: Christina Lowry, Ex Libris 2025, installation shot. Photo by Louis Lim
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