Since
1983 Lloyd Godman has engaged in an extensive series of photographic
works centred on environmental issues and exhibited widely throughout
New Zealand, Australia and internationally with more than 40 solo
exhibitions and over 200 group exhibitions. He gained an MFA from RMIT Melbourne, Australia in 1999.
He began working with Bromeliad plants as a living medium in 1996 and has engaged in ground breaking work with Tillandisas (air plants). In 2013 he installed 8 suspended rotating air plant scultures as part of the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program. In 2014 he installedexperimental plants on level 92 of Eureka Tower the tallest building with plants atop.
Lloyd
Godman - "the lateral thinker of Australian and New Zealand
Photography".
Julie Millowick Daylesford foto biennale 2007
"Lloyd Godman's twin interests of organic gardening and practicing
artist of great creative energy converge in new and constantly surprising
ways to make art about ecological concerns..Over almost three decades
his art has widened out from relatively traditional landscape photography
to include elements of performance, audience participation art and
multimedia installation to explore the tensions between electronic
consumer society and the ecosystem."
Artlink magazine - Ecology: Everyone's Business - Vol 25 no 4 - Dec
- Jan 2006
"...the
largest photosensitive emulsion we know of is the planet earth. As
vegetation grows, dies back, changes colour with the seasons, the
"photographic image" that is our planet alters. Increasingly
human intervention plays a larger role in transforming the image of
the globe we inhabit".
Lloyd Godman - 2006
"Probably
the artists who have influenced me the most are Man Ray and Max Ernst,
- not so much the work itself but their inquisitive nature where they
kept exploring things. I see my work as a means of learning about
myself and my relationship to the universe. As both are in flux, my
work is also in constant change. So rather than establish a constant
and marketable style each series presents a new challenge where I
can carry over some artifacts from my past experience and add another
new layer."
Lloyd Godman 2005
The
energy of light is magic. The magic of light in all its manifestations
and meanings is at the critical edge of my work. Light is essential
to both photography and photosynthesis, a fusion of the two is a most
special spell. Lloyd Godman 2005
