Backyard Biosecurity Sculpture Art Project
The aim of this initiative is to engage small landholders in a creative and innovative way.
By displaying these sculptures at various agriculture shows and department events across Victoria, we hope to reach a wide audience and raise awareness about the importance of biosecurity and emergency animal disease
Sheep sculptures
Kristie Witt
Bendigo based indigenous artist.
Kristie is a proud Wotjobaluk women and a traditional artist based in Bendigo.
The bold colour in Kristie's design highlights the severe impact that emergency animal diseases can have on Victorian Agriculture.
The transmission of diseases can seamlessly have a ripple effect between our agricultural animals, taking only one particle to infect another.
Joy Chiang
Melbourne based artist.
Joy is a contemporary abstract artist in Melbourne. She strives to create work that captures emotions and beauty through the language of colour.
This artwork was inspired by the intent to bring awareness to backyard biosecurity.
The small particles have unseen connection and ripple effects to our agricultural animals.
The dots and line show the profound impact it may cause and start conversations to bring more awareness.
Jasmine Mansbridge
Hamilton based artist.
Jasmine is a professional practicing artist in Hamilton. She strives to create work that captures emotions and beauty through the language of colour.
This artwork provokes thought and wonder and gives the viewer the chance to apply their personal storytelling, as they unpack the geometry and portals of Mansbridge’s imagined world.
The colour purple represents wisdom. So much of Australia’s prosperity has been built on the back of agriculture and wisdom is needed to manage and maintain animal wellbeing and biosecurity.
Cow sculpture
Claire Taylor
Mornington Peninsula based artist.
Claire is a contemporary artist based on the Mornington Peninsula. She creates colourful art, craft & design, with the intention of generating positive feelings through her work.
The cow features references to the symptoms of foot-and-mouth disease experienced by cattle, with elements representing the implementation of the come clean go clean strategy to minimise the spread of disease, and the inflammatory nature of foot-and-mouth disease in affected livestock.
Pig sculpture
Manda Lane
Melbourne based artist.
Manda Lane is a muralist, illustrator and paper installation artist based in Melbourne.
Working predominantly in black and white, Manda adopts a contemporary and stylised approach to traditional botanical art.
The artwork seeks to promote the importance and need for owners to provide a correct diet for pigs, in the prevention of emergency animal diseases.
Goat sculpture
Lucy Hersey
South Gippsland based
artist.
Lucy is an artist from Bunurong country. She runs a cattle stud with her husband and focuses on preserving heritage breed genetics and protecting the health of landscape for the future.
This artwork celebrates how the natural hardiness and adaptability of goats can be leveraged to benefit farmers in the context of landscape management.
It showcases both the brilliant contribution the humble goat makes to farm life and the agriculture sector, as well as the important biosecurity factors one must consider and account for when keeping goats.