A farmer is framed pruning rhododendron in This One’s for the Farmer. (Image: Sylvia Borda)
“Farming and art do not run in tandem [and] we tend to have an absence of knowledge of how we get our food,” said artist Sylvia Borda in her UFV greenSPEAK lecture on September 25.
Borda envisioned something unique: the amalgamation of art and agriculture.
“As an artist I realized the past of art had a pastoral view,” Borda said. “As a result, [farming in art] became static. It became suicide to touch.”
To reiterate the latter, Borda presented van Gogh’s painting “Arles: View from the Wheatfields,” depicting a large wheat field and far in the distance an industrialized town. This was outrageously “insulting to the art community.”
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Illustrated children’s book ‘Aphid Attack!’ promotes plant health 17th March 2021
However, a collaboration between one of our PhD students, Josh Joyce, and an illustration student, Lauren Harris continued independently beyond this formal finish and led to an engaging children’s book highlighting the importance of plant health.
The illustrative book tells the story of Billy and his encounter with a plant scientist working to prevent wheat being attacked by aphids.
As part of the International Year of Plant Health, the formal collaboration focused on topics within our Plant Health research programme.
PhD student Josh was one of our researchers who got involved with the project. In February 2020 Josh spoke to second year illustration students about his research. Josh works on investigating how plants respond to insect attack and he focusses on understanding the signalling mechanisms involved in plant defences a