Nature, Memory & Materiality

Artist Talk

How can art help us see the living world differently? What can the cycles of life, natural processes and the materials we work with reveal about transformation, memory and the legacies we leave behind?

Join artists Renata Buziak and Andrea Moser for a conversation exploring these questions through two distinct artistic practices.

Renata will share her rainforest biochrome textiles and her process of working in collaboration with plants and natural processes. Using plant material and photographic materials, she allows moisture, microorganisms, plant chemistry, temperature and time to transform the photographic surface, creating works that move between botanical form and abstraction.

Drawing on her Gondwanan Biochromes developed during her Artist-in-Residence at Binna Burra, Renata will reflect on the cycles of life, decay, transformation and renewal embedded within the biochrome process. Her work invites us into the space between seeing and knowing — to pause, look differently, and discover what may be hidden within an image.

Andrea Moser works with encaustic wax, fine-liner drawings and metal to explore natural lifecycles, survival, continuity and human legacy. Her Legacy Portrait series maps a life across nine chapters, considering what we carry forward and what we leave for future generations. Her work draws connections between the rhythms of nature and the human experience of adaptation, memory and generational continuity.

Together, the artists will share their different approaches to working with materials, time and natural processes, and explore how art can open new ways of seeing our relationship with the living world — and our place within its ongoing cycles of change and renewal.

‘Between Space and Abstraction’ exhibition

This Artist Talk is offered in conjustion with ‘Between Space and Abstraction’ exhibition and Australian Earth Law Allience (AELA) Earth Arts Kinship Program 2026.

The exhibition, Taiwan – Australia Cultural Exchange, is organised by the World Arts and Multi-Cuture In. (WAMCI), and curated by Melody Chen, WAMCI Founder.

Find out more about the exhibition and participating artists from Australia and Taiwan: About the EXHIBITION 

Images on this page:

• Banner: Renata Buziak, a detail of biochrome textile, Andrea Mosesr, a details of Andrea’s artwork.
• Feature image: Details of Renata Buziak’s and Andreas Moser’s artworks.