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Emma Jackson's 'Floor is Lava' exhibition to be held for free at Berninneit Art Gallery from 7 September - 20 October 2024

Bass Coast Shire Council presents "Floor is Lava" by Emma Jackson at Berninneit Gallery, Cowes, featuring ten knotted rugs depicting Australian volcanic islands, showcasing geological history, celebration on September 7, 3-5pm.

By news@gippsland - 30th August 2024 - Back to News

Bass Coast Shire Council are proud to present the "Floor is Lava" exhibition by Emma Jackson at our beautiful art gallery at Berninneit, Cowes. Floor is Lava is an exhibition of ten knotted rugs representing Australian islands with a unique volcanic story due to their proximity to existing and prehistoric magmatic arcs.

Daughter of a geologist, Emma Jackson lived in mining communities across West Africa, the UK, and Western Australia. She trained as an architect and did fieldwork with Harry Butler

Immerse, educate, excite

Dr Emma Jackson says, "The intent of this exhibition is to provide temporary relief from 2024, by immersing the visitor in deep geological time. The ten volcanic islands on display offer a colorful and sumptuous retelling of geological history. They have an important job to do; to increase awareness of earth science and in so doing make caring about our continent contagious."

"This is the first time the island rugs have been on tour, so to have one of them (the Phillip Island rug) showing on home ground is very exciting! And there is a home-ground advantage, in that the geological story can start with the exhibition and continue with a wander around the island," she said.

Event details

Community is invited to the Exhibition Opening Celebration on Saturday 7 September 3-5pm at Berninneit. The Floor is Lava exhibition is FREE and runs from: 7 September - 20 October 2024

• Berninneit Art Gallery
• 91-97 Thompson Ave, Cowes
• Monday-Friday 9:30am-5pm
• Weekends 10am-4pm

Floor is Lava | Emma Jackson | Berninneit Art Gallery

About Emma Jackson

Founded in 2020, Emma Jackson is a multimedia art practice that endeavours to offer an insight into meaningful ways to connect to the ground we walk on. The work we do is about belonging; knowing where your feet are. Straddling disciplines of art and geology, we aim to bring earth science to a broader audience and to reveal the unique and beguiling earth story embedded in our continent.

As the daughter of a geologist, Emma Jackson spent the first twelve years of her life as an expat in mining communities, in West Africa, the UK, and Western Australia. Her family's location on the globe was based on the age and behaviour of the rock and the resources it contained. Earth Science became a meaningful way of connecting to a strange place and finding 'home'.

Jackson then trained as an architect at the University of Western Australia and did fieldwork over summer with Harry Butler, esteemed Australian naturalist, on the remote Islands off the Northwest of Australia. Jackson then went on to work for some of Australia's top design architects. She completed a PhD at RMIT in 2019 which proposed more appropriate ways of building on the diverse geology we have in the North of Australia.

Pictures from Bass Coast Shire Council website.

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