Amanda Walker 'Seedbank #3' Restoration Giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera (endangered)

Seedbank #3 Restoration
Giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera (endangered)
Original graphite drawing on Arches paper

$1100

Limited Edition Print

1/5, 2/5, 3/5, 4/5, 5/5
Archival Premium Print on cotton rag paper
Unframed 265mm W x 335mmH

$280

Restoration of Tasmania’s Giant kelp forests

Eaglehawk Neck Dive and community volunteers have been working in partnership with scientists from IMAS to develop methods to restore giant kelp forests.
In late 2022 the first ever forest-scale restoration was attempted in Australia planting an area of 7000m2 in Tasmania’s south east at Fortescue Bay. Six months after planting, the restored kelps were already over 5m tall and at 12 months reaching over 15m high and are successfully reproducing spores. 

Partners: UTAS-IMAS, Seaforest and Eaglehawk Neck Dive

Amanda Walker’s work primarily consists of drawing and photography, creating multi-layered works that interweave a narrative of an emerging landscape with history, duration and geological time.  Her actions of repetition and layering respond to fragments of experiences brought together to recall or suggest our movement within the landscape.
Amanda completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Deans Roll of Excellence with Honours at the University of Tasmania 2012. Her most recent exhibition was in collaboration with scientists from the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, Tasmania. Directly responding to their research helped her to understand that there are limits to our knowledge, and as habitat and species are lost forever, monitoring, measuring, preservation and protection are critical to survival. Through her work, Amanda continues to seek to understand the connections that emerge between the vulnerability of the landscape and our connectedness with nature.