Artworks 3D 2015
Catalogue / Memoir
Introduction
Pictures
Objects
Animations
OBJECTS are individual things and installations of many things.
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Made in collaboration with designer Marc Pascal, the installation, Will she feed the fish? was selected for the exhibition, An Anthropocene Cabinet of Curiosities at Australian Galleries Melbourne 3 May - 24 May, as part of the international 2015 Climarte Festival program.
"Plastic served subtle purposes in the powerful Will she feed the fish? art-science collaboration between Lisa Roberts and Marc Pascal. The fine plastic wires that hung the aesthetically beautiful recycled Biomesh pods, including a pod of dreaming the Anthropocene, are implicated in wildlife destruction."
National Museum of Australia Review 8 May 2015
Photo: Joseph Kiraly
Will she feed the fish? was part of the Climarte Cabinet of Curiosities exhibition at Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Sunday 3 May 2015. Curated by artist Mandy Martin (far right), with William L. Fox, Director, Centre for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art.
To me the most powerful and inspiring part of their project was that each artist was invited to stand beside their work and tell its story. I told this story, about phytoplankton:
STORY
Phytoplankton produce every second molecule of oxygen we breathe. They photosynthesise sunlight to produce energy to sustain life. Navicular is the form of this particular species. Within this boat-shaped form of phytoplankton, I have placed a tiny human, Phagus, to signify the process called phagocytosis, which in biological terms is the Big Bang in evolution that resulted in animal species that eat each other to get nutrients (energy).
Photo: Josef Goding
Photo: Josef Goding
Will she feed the fish? (Algae, Mimi, Anthropocene):
Recycled Biomesh, hand-drawn, machine-stitched.
Homo phagus meets Diatom navicula, a love story for plant lovers
With An Marosszeky (left) installing Oceanic Living Data at the Sydney Institute of Marine Science (SIMS). Photo: Inke Faulkner
Diatom navicular
Recycled Biomesh, hand-drawn, machine-stitched. 550mmx170mmx120mm
Photo: Lisa Roberts
Dinoflagellate
Recycled Biomesh, hand-drawn, machine-stitched. 350mmx650mmx300mm
Photo: Lisa Roberts
Hoop dancer
Pencil drawing on recycled paper. A5
I put the drawing here simply to show the similarity in lines of movement in the 2d and 3d art forms.
EVENTS
The year saw an escalation of major ongoing armed conflicts, including the Gaza war, marked by famine and a humanitarian crisis; the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which prompted peace negotiations involving Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump; and the Sudanese civil war...
Wikipedia Accessed Jul 16, 2026
Written by me, Lisa Roberts/Euphausia superba (Antarctic krill), on
21/04/2026
