JULIE RYDER

transgenesis
  • 'transgenesis', 2007 Gallery View Craft Victoria
  • 'transgenesis', 2007Gallery View Craft Victoria Photography: Greg Sims
  • 'transgenesis', 2007 Gallery View 'Morphogenesis I, II & III ', sublistatic printing Each panel 32cm x 180cm Photography: Greg Sims

  • 'Net Returns': Hand-knotted glass fibre, rice, eggshells, feathers. ea 60cmx 310cm ‘transgenesis’ hand constructed umbrellas, digitally enhanced SEM, sublistatic dyes,polyester, steel, vinyl, plastic, glass 240cm diameterPhotography: Greg Sims
  • ‘transgenesis’ (detail) 2007 hand constructed umbrellas, digitally enhanced SEM, sublistatic dyes,polyester, steel, vinyl, plastic, glass 240cm diameterPhotography: Greg Sims
12 April - 12 May 2007 Craft Victoria21 Jan - 28 Feb 2010 Barometer Gallery, Paddington NSW
In this body of work Ryder focuses on the controversial debates surrounding genetically modified organisms (in particular the plants and products that are finding their way into our supermarkets) and investigates the socio-political and economic forces behind them. Our fears about the genetic manipulation of nature and the reverberating consequences it will impose on all levels of life as we know it, are highlighted through Ryder’s digital creations. By fusing highly magnified images of grains and pollen created by scanning electron microscopy together with those from other species, Ryder creates her own cloned species that seem fantastic but could in fact be futuristic phylogenies.