'Ex Libris (from the collection of)' by Christina Lowry

Next date: Wednesday, 21 January 2026 | 11:00 AM to 04:00 PM

An exhibition which takes the viewer on an experimental journey as the artist blurs the lines between the past and future to create speculative archives. Christina Lowry blends cabinets of curiosities, contemporary technology, as well as art historical and museological tropes to investigate our relationship with nature.

At a time of accelerating extinction, this exhibition explores how interdisciplinary artistic practices can critically engage with museological archives to create alternative frameworks for remembering and responding to avian decline.

Grounded in the artist's lifelong fascination with natural collections, Lowry's practice investigates themes of memory, loss, extinction, and conservation. She explores the evolving role of the artist within ecological and museological contexts and proposes speculative archives: imaginative, ethical interventions into specimen traditions, from naturally deceased birds to abstracted forms in porcelain and wool that form non-remnant taxidermy (taxidermy without the animal).

These works evoke rather than extract biological presence, reframing the archive as a space of ecological memory and creative possibility. Through taxidermy, sculpture, photography, and installation, Lowry merges scientific dialogue with creative research. Ultimately, the artist seeks to create poetic memorials for vanishing species and propose new ways of seeing, remembering, and caring in the Anthropocene.

 

Image credits: Christina Lowry, Ex Libris 2025, installation shot. Photo by Louis Lim.

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Kingston Arts Centre, 979 Nepean Highway, Moorabbin, 3189, View Map

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