UK Frederick: Unseeded official launch and panel discussion

Join artist UK Frederick and CABAH Chief Investigator, ANU Professor Sue O’Connor for opening drinks and a discussion, moderated by independent curator and writer Judith Blackall.

In May 2019, artist UK Frederick joined an archaeological field trip to the Ningbing Range, a landscape of ancient Devonian limestone in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Unseeded is the second commission in which an artist works alongside scientists from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH). UK Frederick brings processes of contemporary archaeology to her art practice. Her approach reflects the methods, analysis and histories of Australian archaeology and how that research is communicated.

Exhibition runs September 12 to November 3, 2024.

UK Frederick is a Canberra/Ngunnawal/Ngambri-based artist whose primary modes of art practice are photography, printmaking and video. As an interdisciplinary researcher, she is interested in processes of contemporary archaeology, interdisciplinary practices, visual anthropology, material culture, cultural heritage and the environment. In 2014 she completed her PhD in Visual Arts at The Australian National University.

CABAH’s research aims to tell a culturally inclusive, globally significant history of Australia’s people and environments over the last 130,000 years. With nodes at eight universities across Australia, CABAH seeks to deepen understanding of this continent’s unique cultural and natural history, informing how we conserve and manage Australia’s biodiversity and cultural heritage today and into the future.

The artwork and the scientific research have been supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence scheme (Project Number CE170100015). Views expressed are those of the artists and are not necessarily those of the Australian Government or Australian Research Council.

Image: UK Frederick, Unseeded 2022, hand-blown and etched glass, 35 forms, dimensions variable [from 12cm to 35 cm], CABAH Art Series Commission