'Nature Study'
Jean Brundrit at AVANature Study is an exhibition of new photographic images by Jean Brundrit, in which she examines the natural world and human nature through the depiction of animals.
The images embody a strong concern with environmental issues. The connection between nature, human emotion, identity and culture are highlighted through the choices made by the artist that link the images to three texts: 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798), the Book of Genesis, and Barbara Smuts writing in response to J.M. Coetzee's lectures, published in 'The Lives of Animals' in 1999.
Brundrit presents two series of images for Nature Study; large, monochrome, shadow grams where the scale of the animal's image has a direct relationship to its size in life and a second series of colour photographic portraits of animals. The exhibition raises a number of questions and compels us to consider the role we play as individuals and communities in our natural environments.
08 August - 02 September














