Emily Parsons-Lord is a Sydney based cross disciplinary artist whose practice is informed by research and dialogue with materials and climate science. Our Fetid Rank is a continuation of an investigation into material understandings of air, as well as the immateriality of air. Exploring air as both a physical material, as well as an amorphous subconscious, or bridge to a netherworld, her work queries the cultural understanding of Anthropocenic traces in air: “Anthropo(s)cenery”. Her recent work includes recreating the air from past eras in Earth’s evolution, looking for the visible in the invisibility of air, exploring ‘voids’ with silica aerogel materials, falsifying tree ring formation, and recreating starlight in smoke bombs. Parsons-Lord has exhibited at Underbelly Arts 2015, Proximity Festival 2014/2015, Perth Centre of Photography, This is Not Art, amongst others, and will undertake an Ars Bioarctica residency in northern Finland in 2016.
