The solo exhibition from QCAD student Beth Crase comprises of two experimental series: Flush and Disposable Beauty. Crase uses liquid and solid refuse produced by the community to interrogate our relationships with the discarded. Experimental photographic images are presented that belie their origin, to explore how and why their perceived value shifts when the origins of the images are revealed. Does the viewer recoil in disgust, from an image they had considered beautiful at first?
Beth Crase is an emerging Australian visual artist working with experimental photographic techniques, print-making and sculpture. In her art practice she draws on her past as an ecologist and research scientist to explore the physics of light, chemistry, and the human position within a network of interactions with biodiversity and natural ecosystems.