“I love the way this collection celebrates favorite things in life, from pets, foods, nature and hobbies to family members, friends, teammates and sports teams,” said Sabrina Ionescu of the New York Liberty, a Doernbecher ambassador. Others have connected with patients to lend their support, as they battle ongoing illnesses. Over the years, several of Nike’s top athletes have lent their signature shoes as canvases for patients. Related Story A reborn HBCU in Detroit is opening a Black-owned footwear factory Read now
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This year’s collection features patients who have moved from as far as Kenya.Įach year, the newest series is unveiled at a special auction-style event at Oregon Health & Science University, of which Doernbecher is a part, with the designers helping to highlight the inspiration and details that went into their shoes. The program has raised more than $30 million, covering the cost of health care for families in need, supporting research on illnesses faced by kids, and providing specialized care to patients who come from outside the region. My work is held in private collections around the world, and has been featured in publications including British Vogue, London Lifestyle, and London House magazines.A post shared by OHSU Doernbecher proceeds from Nike’s retail sales of the collections are donated to the hospital. Overall, my work collaborates with the viewer, encouraging them to see beyond the literal figurative references to plants and gardens they may already be familiar with.
Emphasizing the active presence plants have in worlds humans have created, in paintings that re-visualize vegetal being, the viewer is propelled toward speculative futures that meditate on the connections between plants and humans. The viewer is invited to comprehend the limitations of our current perceptions of plant life. In some paintings I have positioned weeds centre stage, taking on a larger-than-life proportion and rendered using highly saturated colour palettes to give them visual luminosity. Engaging with plants understood as ‘weeds’ and ‘aliens’ has inspired me to represent them as noble plants worthy of pictorial representation in their own right, but whose occupation in the tradition of botanical art has often been marginal or omitted altogether. As such, elements of my studio practice explore the visual and emotional effects generated from these configurations of plants.Īnother focus in my artwork is undesirability and marginality in the plant kingdom. I have a recurring fascination with the visual confusion and frisson from observing diverse plant species alongside each other, in ways that are not replicated in the natural world. Adopting a stylized approach that heightens the unnaturalness of how plant life can be organized through human interventions into the plant kingdom, I mobilise concepts drawn from critical plant studies and philosophy to help me develop artwork that provokes questions about the place plants hold in society. I use acrylic, oil and spray paint to represent how plants are often arranged artificially, whether in botanic gardens, planted landscapes or as pressed specimens fixed on herbarium sheets. Responding to an historical artistic tradition of representing plants largely as aesthetic objects and planted gardens as a marvel of human control over nature, my studio practice explores how plants can be understood in terms of power, agency and ambiguity.
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I am a visual artist based in Hampshire (UK) whose work provides pictorial windows into visually rich, expansive botanic worlds that I describe as ‘botaniscapes’.
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