Projects with Bromeliads & other Plants - © Lloyd Godman

Photo-syn-thesis

Since 1996 Godman has been working with plants the process of photosynthesis. The works manifested themselves through a range of projects.

Organic inscriptions, biotic imprinting, photosynthetic marks. While culture imposes its own marks on nature, nature itself is a huge intricate web of complex marks.

In fact the largest photosensitive emulsion is the very fabric of the planet, plants.

" Since the late 1990s Lloyd's work has been more a celebration of light "as origin, process and outcome". Light is the "giver of life" through the process of photosynthesis, is central to the process of photographic image-making, but is also ironically "the medium which metamorphoses on the screen as advertising or corporate radiation' and thus "indirectly drives the global mechanism of consumerism". That consumer society depends on the diversity of abundance of flora and fauna on the planet, the very ecosystem that is the boiler house and drives life on this planet".

Lawrence Jones Art Link Vol 25 no 4

	2009 >>	Su/spend - experimental living plant work based on the principle of super sustainability. Super - sustainable art practice is where the practice and work produces a greater environmental and or organic output than the work consumes. Lloyd is experimenting with living suspended tillandsia sculptures that grow with minimal water in hot and dry climates. The only maintenance required is the trimming the new growth which provides more material from further work.
	2008	Source version II - from a survey - Curated by Ross Farnell at Burrinja Gallery
	2007 >>	Hybridize - A project in progress - This is a very long term project, with unpredictable results - as an extension of the Classification work - the concept is to cross-pollinate some of my Bromeliad collection, germinate and then grow the seed on to maturity over 4 -5 years, observe what eventuates and then name the new hybrids after fossil fuel machines - this also becomes a link to the Plant Room
	2008	enLIGHTen version II- from a survey - Curated by Ross Farnell at Burrinja Gallery - an interactive installation with six infrared activated projectors and suspended Bromeliad plants that throw shadows onto large toilet paper screens.
	2007	Leaf imprints - images grown in the grass - from an artist in residency at L'Arbre de Vie / Chateau de Blacons, France
	2007	LEAF - light impressions - Cyanotype photogram prints of plants and charcoal drawings from an artist in residency at L'Arbre de Vie / Chateau de Blacons, France
	2007	la Chambre Verte - the Green Room - Projection installation - from an artist in residency at L'Arbre de Vie / Chateau de Blacons, France
	2005	Source - Source consists of a suspended table and chairs with a data projection of the time lapse sequence on the table - the work raises issues of the source of our food, vulnerability and sustainability. Curated by Tony Trembath for ephemeral sculpture in Nilumbik.
	2005	Timed Lapse - the first interactive work where the audience photograph themselves through plants growing. The work also explores ideas of time and aging. Curated by Dan Talley for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Ga, Atlanta, USA
	2002	@ the Speed of Light - a continuation of experiments with Tillandsia plants, photosynthesis and self developing photograms, it is a progression form an earlier work Disturbance in the Field
	2001	sup/PORT - an installation of Tillandsia Plants in Hafslund Upholstery shop window Port Chalmers Dunedin as part of the LOAD project organized by Georgiana Morison that ran along side Vision Art
	2001	Disturbance in the Field - the first self developing photogram work with a suspended Tillandsia
	1999	enLIGHTen - an interactive installation with seven infrared activated projectors and suspended Bromeliad plants that throw shadows onto the large (7.5m long x 3.5m high) tissue paper screens. The work is a progression of the LIGHT installation.
	1999	implant - an installation of Bromeliad plants on a mannequin, a woman and a skeleton. The work is a progression of the LIFT installation
	1999	LIFT - an installation of Bromeliad Plants in a Lift (elevator). The work is a progression of earlier experiments with plants like Classification
	1998	Light - the first light projection installation with suspended Bromeliad Plants
	1998	Planet - Installation of a large (8mx4m) globe on the floor of 101 Collins St Gallery Annex, Melbourne ( photographs of Bromeliad plants
	1998	Classification - installation of Tillandsia plants in a museum case
	1997	Plant Room - Installation of Bromeliads in the Plant Room (boiler house) at the Otago Polytechnic which contains 3 coal burning furnaces for heating the building complex.
	1996	Photosynthesis - involved masking off areas of Bromeliad plants and exposing them for months to sunlight which created biotanically imprinted symbols on the living tissue of the leaves