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A MULTIMEDIA work Open Air has won collaborating artists Dr Grayson Cooke of Southern Cross University and Emma Walker the 2020 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize.
This visual music project set to the 2013 album ‘Open’ by Australian cult band The Necks combines time-lapse Landsat satellite imagery of Australia from Geoscience Australia’s Digital Earth Australia project and videography by SCU Associate Professor, together with aerial macrophotography of paintings by Ms Walker.
The resulting work encapsulates the vastly different forms of aerial earth imaging to produce a complex picture of a changing planet.
The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize is Australia’s premier biennial natural science art prize.
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The judges said of Grayson and Emma’s work:
The work is a synthesis of the Australian landscape and artistic practice. Both are examined individually and then woven together in such a skillful way as to make it challenging to distinguish which is landscape and which is art. The images are then bound further together by a mesmerizing soundtrack. By bringing natural science and art together so seamlessly makes this a worthy winner of the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize 2020.
When asked how it felt to be named the Open Category winner Grayson Cooke said winning this prize couldn’t be a more perfect accolade for this work with Emma Walker, adding it was not so much about winning this prize but the fact that Open Air had been given the honour of such recognition.