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Tillandsia SWARM
Tillandsia Swarm is an experimental art/science project by ecological artist Lloyd Godman, where selected species of Tillandsias (air plants) are installed without soil or axillary watering at a range of extreme and exposed urban locations and monitored to gauge their success through extreme seasonal conditions.
The premise of the project is to offer models of how these amazing plants can be integrated in to architecture in a fully sustainable manner, with minimal maintenance, infrastructure and risk. To engage in an art project where the purpose is not necessarily that the work is seen, but that it remains active in the environment. To offer a means of using the highly evolved biology of the plants as biomonitors to record comparative pollution levels of heavy metal particulates in the atmosphere.
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studio LAB xeric
studiuo LAB xeric sees a shift from art works that comment on environmental issues to works that are active and contribute to the environment. Godman utilizes Tillandsia plants to create living sculptures that suspend in space and are free to rotate on the breeze.
"Lloyd Godman is one of a new breed of environmental artists whose work is directly influencing 'green' building design......"Godman's installations are the result of a unique blend of botanical science, environmental awareness and artistic expression. All three elements are intrinsic to the practical realisation of his polymathic vision. ..
.... as physical objects, Godman's artworks are purifiers of the air as well as the soul, suppliers of colour as well as calmness, and filters of water as well as the human spirit.".
John Power - Editor of Facility Management Magazine Aug 2011
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di/VISION - 1994
From 1989, Lloyd Godman explored the visual strategy of what he termed di/VISION, where two camera frames are shot of a scene, one frame above the other, but with elements repeating in the resulting composite diptych. He explored this over several decades in landscapes of both the natural world and the built environment. Godman uses the technique with stealth to exploit the human desire to make sense of what we see - so while the eye sees two images, the mind wants to read a single image.
204 pages
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Lloyd Godman Mail Art works & Projects 1988 - 2004
92 pages Down load Low Res PDF - free
From 1988 to 2004 Lloyd Godman engaged in a wide range of mail art projects. This PDF documents his work and some of these projects. The publication offers an introduction and history of Mail Art.
94 pages
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The art of: Gathering Falling Light
A series of black and whitedocumentary photographs taken around dunedin.
155 pages
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ACUTE 2000
Right -this is an angle formed by the perpendicular intersection of two straight lines 90 degrees. The term right angle evolved as a reference to the "right" or perfect angle needed to construct the rectangle where each side is in parallel to it opposite side and is used as a standard building block in so many applications X, Y axis.
These are photographs of architecture that sit on acute angle sites, each offers an individual tension.
188 pages
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Equivalence 2006
Lloyd Godman's interest in photosynthesis and regeneration of the bush after fire grew from his engagement in photography and intrigue with photosensitivity. His work with his signature plant family, Bromeliads, stalled in 2005 when he had to sell the plants in New Zealand and begin collecting again in a Australia. On a camping trip to Wilsons Prom, Victoria, he was captivated by the juxtaposition of vibrant green regrowth against the stark blackened tree trunks. The photographs he took provided a visual base that he then extended from with charcoal drawings similar to the Drawing from Nature project of the early 1990s where he mixed photography and drawing.
Equivalence is a transition project that stems from his focus to keep exploring ideas of light and photosynthesis.
56 pages
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Creatives - Photographs of artists
A series of black and whitedocumentary photographs taken around dunedin.
155 pages
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Aporian Emulsions 1995 - 98
Lloyd Godman was lecturer in charge of photography at the School of Art. Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand from 1986 until 2005 where he established a department that was highly regarded for its explorative approach to photography, and in particular alternative photographic processes. From 1989, his art practice has centered on the phenomenon of light and a wide range of photosensitive emulsions (including plants and photosynthesis) and camerless photography through the use of photograms. In Aproian Emulsions he utilizes alternative photo-emulsions like Cyanotype and Van Dyke Brown in a plastic manner, where the confines of the rectangle are broken and the liquid flows as marks and motifs. Rather than a fault, aberrations in the process are embraced as an aesthetic device that strengthens the concept of the work.
128 pages
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(Body Symbols)1986 - 1988
Body Symbols is a series of black & white photographs exploring the visual relationship of the human body and the ancient organic elements - earth, air, fire and water.
88 pages
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To Speak another Language - Poetry 1984 - 2008
A series of poems and word play. written for various projects and poetic readings of student work.
155 pages
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