Eva Nolan
‘Erasure’ 2021. Graphite pencil on paper, acrylic round, 32cm x 32 cm; 4k digital animation.
Artist statement
Erasure entwines traditional illustration with digital animation to examine the vulnerability of Australian biodiversity during the extinction crisis. The drawing depicts twenty-five native species arranged into a wreath, a symbol of loss and remembrance.
In the animation, the organisms flicker and fade, their transparency calibrated to reflect their conservation status on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Those that are nonthreatened remain solid, the threatened species fade into ghostly impressions, and the extinct vanish entirely. The work confronts ecological loss while memorialising the fragile lives that persist.
Photograph: Anna Kucera
Acknowledgement of Country
ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.
We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
