Digital Wall Exhibition: Diatoms Flowers and Circuit Boards

Digital Wall Exhibition: Diatoms Flowers and Circuit Boards

The Digital Wall in the Bunjil Place foyer is a digital gallery space that exhibits video art and generative works. 
Over the next 4 months we present the digital video work Diatoms Flowers and Circuit Boards by Paul Fletcher.

1 October 2024 - 31 January 2025

_{Header image: Paul Fletcher, still from Diatoms Flowers and Circuit Boards, 2024}

Diatoms Flowers and Circuit Boards

Recurring patterns between ephemeral flowers, 100-million-year-old oceanic diatom species (beautifully patterned microscopic algae) and human made circuit boards.
Calming electric piano/bell sounds, create musical patterns that shift and cycle like waves and tides. An entwining of the nature of all nature. From flowers and stars to cells and forests, to digital technologies based on biological processes and age old minerals from the earth. Our footprints, shadows and traces entangle in these landscapes of patterns.

Paul Fletcher

Paul Fletcher is an animator, musician and artist who has been creatively involved for many years in experimental music and short film/animation and media projects. He has made over 30 short animated and experimental films that have been screened locally and internationally.

Paul started in super 8 stop motion and experimental film techniques, and moved into screen-printing, live music and multimedia performances with a group called Essendon Airport.

Paul also studied Horticulture and Permaculture, and ran a small landscape design and maintenance business Simply Edible Gardens. 
Between 1998 and 2021 Paul was a lecturer and course coordinator in animation at the Victorian College of the Arts, Film and Television School -a faculty of Fine Arts and Music at Melbourne University.  
Paul has performed music and video works for central victorian art collective Punctum, Ensemble Liaison, Richard Frankland and Undue Noise. Ant Paul Projects is Paul’s most recent ongoing audiovisual collaboration with composer Dr Anthony Lyons, encompassing recorded works, music and visual performances and installations.
The tyranny of the moment and closeness of distance was a solo multimedia gallery exhibition at the La Trobe Visual Arts Centre (2011).

Between 2008 and 2015, Paul staged Hidden Creatures a large outdoor sculpture, audio and animated video installation as part of the Greater City of Bendigo's Easter Festival.