Entropy Spiral - Baldessin Press - 2011 |
As an artist Lloyd Godman has been using plants as a medium for more than 20 years. Bromeliads are the signature plants in his work and in particular Tilliandsia commonly know as air plants. Initially he began utilizing plants in a series of installations in art galleries and industrial sites in New Zealand, Australia and the USA, but recently has focused on more permanent installations out doors.
"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". John Power - Editor of Facility Management Magazine Aug 2011
The ground breaking work with air plants was published in two architectural journals.
Tall Building and Urban Habitat - Journal - paper A Flight Manual for Air Plants
Green Building Council Journal - Paper Alpha Space - Where Plants Fly Beyond the vertical Garden
Lloyd can be commissioned to create living plant works with Bromeliads and Tillandsia plants. |
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In an active ecological art work titled Tillandsia SWARM, since June 2014 Lloyd has been installing Tillandsia plants at various sites around Melbourne city as an experiment to see how these plants respond to the urban environment. The first installation took place on top of the iconic Eureka Tower and is the tallest building in the world with plants on. These resilient air plants have survived for over 2 years with no attention, maintenance or watering system.
Click on the adjacent map to view the various sites.
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Entropy Rotation I - Private Gardens - 2011 |
In 2011 Lloyd developed the concept of suspended rotating air plant sculptures. These structures adorned with Tillandsias, suspend, rotate on the wind, and as they need no soil or watering are highly sustainable. When direct sun shines on the living plant sculpture, an animated shadow is projected onto the ground or a wall. |
Expanding dimension cube - Camberwell Grammar School, 2011 |
Other works like this living plant sculpture are secured to the ground or an element of a building. |
 Nature Reclaims the Helix - 2013 |
Nature Reclaims the Helix - 2016 |
Pulse - 2014 |
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Airborne project - 2013 - saw eight suspended rotating air plant sculptures installed at Les Erdi Plaza, Northbank, Melbourne, Australia
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Supported as a temporary art installation by the City of Melbourne, through the Arts Grants Program - the work was installed for 13 months and removed early 2014 |
Airborne project - 2013 |
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SPICEE - the first permanent suspended rotating living air plant sculpture, Friends School, Hobart, Australia
Photograph Nic Maxwell |
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Experimental movable living Tillandsia plant screens for a building
The South China Morning Post base in Hong Kong are about to publish an article on the plant works in Melbourne these have been up since the beginning of Feb with no life support system at all (watering system etc and are thriving). The editor also wanted a shot of the experimental movable air plant screens I have at home. As I did not really have a good photo and the setting was not sympathetic, I took the curtain at the house added some more plants and set it up on a neighbors house a few km away. The house already had a screen system so it gives a great comparison to the plant screens. So after an hour or so it looked like this - the screens can be moved from the widow to the façade of the building. This is a prototype and they need more development but it gives a good idea of the concept. Of course the screens could easily be applied to a multilevel building. |
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