Exhibition @ MRAG - Carbon Tax

Exhibition dates: 25 March to 14 May 2022

Carbon Tax - Fiona Lee

Artist and climate justice activist Fiona Lee lost her home and studio in Warrawillah on Biripi country to the catastrophic bushfires in November 2019. She was compelled to respond to comments at the time from the Deputy Prime-Minister that the idea of linking climate change and the ongoing bushfire crisis were "the ravings of pure, enlightened and woke capital city greenies." Days later, Fiona and her family arrived on the steps of NSW parliament where they dumped a bucket of ash from what was left of their home and demanded government acknowledge the link between the firestorms, the resulting devastation and climate change. 

The loss of her home and the fraught political commentary at the time drove Fiona to create the exhibition Unpreparable, and then Carbon Tax a very direct personal response to the bushfire crisis. 

“I felt silenced by politicians and had to call out these comments. There is a clear link between the bushfires and a heating planet and I’ve used the evidence of the climate crisis, the scorched remnants of my home, to communicate this." Fiona Lee

"The ferocity of bushfires is soon to be so severe in Australia due to climate change that they will be near impossible to extinguish" says former NSW fire chief Greg Mullins. This futility is depicted in Carbon Tax. 

image: Fiona Lee Carbon Tax 2021 video. Image courtesy of the artist

 

 

 

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Manning Regional Art Gallery, 12 Macquarie Street, TAREE, 2430, View Map