Come along to Tiwu Kumangka and view the drawing installation created by local artist Eleanor Noir during her 3-month Artist-in-Residence for Nature Festival and Wittunga Botanic Garden.
The work, titled, 'Our Beating Hearts, Their Beating Wings: An Interspecies Murmuration’ focuses upon bird species loss and community resilience. The drawing and paper cut out installation depicts many different birds in flight to create the effect of an interspecies murmuration. Murmurations are a natural phenomenon often cited as creating a sense of awe in humans - they can stop us in our tracks and draw us into the wonder of the more-than-human world.
This drawing installation celebrates birdlife and community, and was created by inviting the public to submit their photographs of birds in flight to be drawn into the installation. By combining line drawing and paper cut outs, this work immerses the viewer in the wonder of the natural world, creating a murmuration of many different species of birds taking flight together.
About the Artist:
Eleanor Noir (b. 1991) is a visual artist living and working on Kaurna Land/Adelaide. Her multidisciplinary art practice investigates themes of connection with the natural world, impermanence and the boundaries between being wild and domesticated.
In 2012 she received her BVA from Adelaide Central School of Art, following which she undertook further studies in perceptual painting and drawing in France and the USA. In 2015, she was awarded an Australia Council Art Start grant to study life drawing and structural anatomy at the Art Students League of New York, USA and to undertake self-directed studies in the museums of NYC.
She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the Pro Hart Scholarship, Australia Council Art Start Grant, the Waterway Fellowship, the Tanza Lorraine Smith Fellowship and the Carbins Trust Prize. Her work has been selected as a finalist for national and international art prizes, including most recently the John Leslie Art Prize, the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and the Calleen Art Award.
Her work has been exhibited in Australia, Spain and the USA - including at the South Australian Museum (Australia), the European Museum of Modern Art MEAM (Spain), and Sotheby’s New York (USA). Her work is held in private collections in Australia and the USA.
