Suzy Costello 

My exegesis will need to discuss the influence of European historical landscape painting from the 17th and 18th century, where artists...

Since understanding that my thesis needs to expand beyond my own embodiment with the forest and include others embodiment, the process...

Met with Simon and Sonya for second studio visit where I presented 3 preparatory works - scents collected for the forest project, an...

Playing with my twin to discover wood aromas in her perfumers' organ. The wood smells of Japanese and European pines, manuka and others...

5th May Walking the possum line in Gollan Valley with the legendary possum hunters Phil Benge, Colin Dalziel, Alan Benge and Michael...

First studio visit Thursday 14th April 2022 in T24b with Simon Morris and Sonya Withers. This was the first time I had seen the scroll...

Hakone; Kosui. Utagawa Hiroshige 1833–34 (source) Art attuned to the unknowable There's a wonderful collection of essays in The Third...

Tiaki taiao (red) by Ani-Oriwia Adds (source). What does it mean to respect Kaitiakitanga, the active stewardship and guardianship of the...

At the critique for our final presentation last year, Simon Morris suggested I read The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate...

Te Hono ki Muka - 3. John Bevan Ford, 1986 (source) Te Ao Taiao - the environment that contains and surrounds us As I spend time drawing...

Why is it I always feel better after walking through the forest? I feel energised and purposeful while also more relaxed and less...

Gallery exhibitions offering olfactory experiences are becoming more popular and I would like to include the scents of the forest in my...

Plants growing in East Harbour Regional Park, 1984 (source) [The forest is now 40 years older so many gorse scrub areas have given way to...

I wish to feel the entirety of this forest living across the road from me, a forest bound by human settlements and the eastern edge of...

Drawing EHRF; Trees as Sentient Beings; Vic Earth Science; Flax Paper making 1 DRAWING EHRF I am continuing drawing even though the...

Researching the history of East Harbour Regional Park; Drawing the East Harbour Regional Park forest; Eco Artist Tosca Teran; and...

Writing thesis proposal and drawing the East Harbour Regional Forest. Then year done!! 1.Thesis Proposal Three thousand five hundred...

Crit installation and presentation 1.Crit Presentation Resolved This is the final installation completed after the crit discussion. By...